01-05-2010, 07:43 AM
You know what I expect to be some cultural influence?
For the Greek, Scythians were synonous with 'foreigners'. It's even a fact, that at the eastern Roman border, the parthians and scythians kept the Romans at distance behind the Eufrates river.
Since jews themselves lived among Scyths and Greeks, (Acts 2:6-9) and they seemed to have spoken there language as wel, the wording for jews-barbarians (foreigners) is well chosen.
So, for a jew, a scyth was much less of a 'barbarian' than for a native Greek.
For the Greek, Scythians were synonous with 'foreigners'. It's even a fact, that at the eastern Roman border, the parthians and scythians kept the Romans at distance behind the Eufrates river.
Since jews themselves lived among Scyths and Greeks, (Acts 2:6-9) and they seemed to have spoken there language as wel, the wording for jews-barbarians (foreigners) is well chosen.
So, for a jew, a scyth was much less of a 'barbarian' than for a native Greek.