The Hellenized University of Tarsus, which educated Saul, and the hellenistic party in Palestine, whose desire to make Jerusalem a southern Antioch brought on the Maccabaean struggle, both owed in a measure their being and their continued vitality to the existence and larger growth of Antioch on the Orontes.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
There were in Jerusalem many hellenistic Jews; that is, those who were reared in foreign countries or were born of parents so reared.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
In hellenistic romance the apple was a conventional love gift, and when presented to a man by a woman signified a declaration of love.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll