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Pines, “The Iranian Name for Christians,” p. 143.

Likewise in the Mandaean Christian book Ginza (Shlomo Pines, “The Iranian Name for Christians and the God-Fearers,” Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2.71 [1968], p. 151), one of the designations for Christians is identical in meaning with the Pahlavi term for “Fearers.”

Commodianus, Instructiones 1.37.

Commodianus, Instructiones 1.24.11ff.

Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.13.

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 10.2.

Attempts to identify “Antoninus” with any of the Antonine or Severan emperors at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century have proven unsuccessful. See Joshua Gutmann, “Antoninus Pius,” Encyclopaedia Judaica 3 (1971), pp. 165–166.

Jerusalem Talmud, Megillah 3.2.74a. See the discussion of this passage by Saul Lieberman, Greek in Jewish Palestine (New York, 1942), pp. 78–80.