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So Commodian, a third-century Christian poet, and Cyril of Alexandria, a fifth-century patriarch, who use the word theosebeis.

The most important have been published in Joyce M. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome (London: Athlone Press, 1982).

The excavation has been funded in part by the National Geographic Society.

On Sardis see Kraabel, “Diaspora Synagogue,” pp. 483–488; Kraabel, “Impact of the Discovery,” pp. 77ff.; C. Foss, Byzantine and Turkish Sardis (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Monograph 4; Cambridge, MA, 1976), with further bibliography.

See Kraabel, “The Disappearance of the ‘God-Fearers,’” p. 120.

Hengel, Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity (Philadelphia, 1980), p. 107.

Michael Grant, The Jews in the Roman World (London, 1973), p. 61.

Kraabel, “Impact of the Discovery of the Sardis Synagogue,” in Sardis from Prehistoric to Roman Times, ed. G. M. A. Hanfmann, (Cambridge, MA, 1983), pp. 178–190.

Kraabel, “The Roman Diaspora: Six Questionable Assumptions,” Journal of Jewish Studies 33 (1982), particularly pp. 453–454.

V. Vaananen, Graffiti del Palatino, I: Paedagogium, no. 246 (Helsinki, 1966), pp. 209–212.