• Sanchuniathon (/ˌsæŋkjʊˈnaɪəθɒn/; Ancient Greek: Σαγχουνιάθων or Σαγχωνιάθων Sankho(u)niáthōn; probably from Phoenician: 𐤎𐤊𐤍𐤉𐤕𐤍, romanized: *Saḵūnyatān...
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  • chiefly known for his Phoenician history assembled from the writings of Sanchuniathon. Philo was born in the 1st century in Byblos in what is now Lebanon...
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  • ancient Greek mythology, and one in the Phoenician religion described by Sanchuniathon. Dione is translated as "Goddess", and given the same etymological derivation...
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    Philo of Byblos's Greek translation of the writings of the Phoenician Sanchuniathon. In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death. The...
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  • Elyon (section Sanchuniathon)
    In Eusebius' account of Philo of Byblos (c. 64–141 CE) record of Sanchuniathon's euhemeristic account of the Phoenician deities, Elioun, whom he calls...
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  • Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon, was the son of Misor and the inventor of writing, who was bequeathed the land of Egypt by Cronus. Sanchuniathon's writings, through...
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    Asherah), and Dione (identified by Sanchuniathon with Ba'alat Gebal the tutelary goddess of Byblos, a city which Sanchuniathon says that El founded). El is...
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  • as brt (𐎁𐎗𐎚), in connection with Baʿal, and perhaps as Beruth in Sanchuniathon's work. Judges is the only Biblical book that mentions Baʿal Berith and...
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    king to a king of the Ahhiyawa Wu Ding, king of the Shang dynasty. Sanchuniathon, Phoenician writer, is born (approximate date). S.M. Stirling's Nantucket...
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    Tehom (section Sanchuniathon)
    demonstrate the equation of the goddess Berouth in the mythology of Sanchuniathon with Ugaritic thmt and Akkadian Tiâmat, as the sea was called tihamatum...
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  • Eusebius in his Praeparatio evangelica and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon. Philo of Byblos gave the Greek meaning of the name as Δίκαιον "Righteousness"...
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    Hadad (section Sanchuniathon)
    Shamem (Lord of the Heavens), a title most often applied to Hadad. In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos, but is mostly named Demarûs. This...
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    a deity separate to Bel/Marduk. Similarly, Zeus Belus mentioned by Sanchuniathon as born to Cronus/El in Peraea is unlikely to be Marduk. Early translators...
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  • other near-eastern histories, such as that of the Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon; but he is considered semi-legendary and writings attributed to him...
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    Atlas that had been translated from the works of ancient Phoenician Sanchuniathon, the original sources for which predate the Trojan War (i.e. 13th century...
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    and the goddess Taratha[Astarte] and Gadlat." [citation needed] In Sanchuniathon's main mythology the god he calls in Greek 'Uranus'/'Sky' has been thought...
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    literary nature (e.g. historical tales, poems, etc.), coins, fragments of Sanchuniathon's History and Mago's Treaty, the Greek translation of the voyage of Hanno...
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    Jehovah.": 199–200  (2nd century) Ιευώ (Ievō): Eusebius, who says that Sanchuniathon received the records of the Jews from Hierombalus, priest of the god...
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    Fragments attributed to the semi-legendary pre-Homeric Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon say Byblos was the first city erected in Phoenicia and was established...
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  • Syrian Goddess, 2nd century CE), fragments of the Phoenician History of Sanchuniathon as preserved by Philo of Byblos (c. 64 – 141 CE), and the writings of...
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    Byblos whose source was the Phoenician writings of Sanchuniathon. Some doubt the existence of Sanchuniathon. Cf., Attridge & Oden, Philo of Byblos (1981);...
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    or the children of El, supposedly obtained by Philo of Byblos from Sanchuniathon of Berythus (Beirut) the creator was known as Elion, who was the father...
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    Christian Eusebius of Caesarea to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, which Eusebius thought had been written before the Trojan War, make...
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    who was afterwards called Phoinix". Quoting fragments attributed to Sanchuniathon, he relates that Byblos, Berytus and Tyre were among the first cities...
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    acropolium of Carthage. According to Eusebius of Caesarea, Phoenician author Sanchuniathon wrote that Sydyk, 'The Righteous', first fathered seven sons equated...
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  • Hierombalus was a priest of Ieuo, mentioned in Sanchuniathon's mythistory, known only through later historian Philo of Byblos via early Christian writer...
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  • and Genea whose children allegedly discovered fire, as recorded by Sanchuniathon (Sankunyaton). The 1350-1335 BC Amarna Letters correspondence refers...
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  • Eusebius in Praeparatio Evangelica, and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon. He was one of two children of the deities Amunos and Magos. The other...
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    10.34, attributing this view to the semi-legendary Phoenician author Sanchuniathon via Philo of Byblos. In addition to asserting that Muth was equivalent...
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    Eusebius to the semi-legendary pre-Trojan War Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, indicates that Cronus was originally a Canaanite ruler who founded...
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