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Since Palestine was under Roman domination after the conquest of Pompey in 63 B.C., Latin was also used at times, as inscriptions in that language that have been discovered show. However, Latin seems to have been confined more or less to official use by Romans and for Romans or other visitors from the Roman empire. See further Fitzmyer, Wandering Aramean, pp. 3032.
See my Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides (Leiden: Brill, 1978), pp. 186–188, W. Bousset and H. Gressmann, Die Religion des Judentums im spathellenistischen Zeitalter (Tübingen: Mohr, 1926), pp. 322–323; Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism, vol. 1, pp. 196–197. For a balanced discussion, see now Michael E. Stone, Fourth Ezra (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990), pp. 244–245 (ad 7:97).
