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Dioscorinthius

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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(Διοσκορίνθιος, Vulg. Dioscorus) occurs in 2 Maccabees 11:21, as the name of a Graeco-Seleucid month. Inasmuch as Dius (Δῖος ) is the name of a well-known Macedonian month (the first of the year), which Josephus (Ant. 1:3, 3) says corresponds with the Jewish Miarchesvan, the name has been regarded (see Wernsdorf, Defide Maccab. page 32) as a corruption (through the form Διόσκουρος ) for that month (Scaliger, Emend. Temp. 2:94), and by others as an intercalary month (but see Ideler, Chronolog. 1:399). (See MONTH).

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Dioscorinthius'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​d/dioscorinthius.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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