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Hypsistarians, the Glossary

Hypsistarians, i.e. worshippers of the Hypsistos (Ὕψιστος, the "Most High" God), and similar variations of the term first appear in the writings of Gregory of Nazianzus (Orat. xviii, 5) and Gregory of Nyssa (Contra Eunom. ii), about AD 374.^[1]

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Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles (Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Attis

Attis (Ἄττις, also Ἄτυς, Ἄττυς, Ἄττης) was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology.

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Bana'im

Bana'im were a minor Jewish sect and an offshoot of the Essenes during the second century in Palestine.

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Bithynia

Bithynia (Bithynía) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Bogomilism

Bogomilism (bogomilstvo; bogomilstvo; богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic, dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century.

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Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting.

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Book of Sirach

The Book of Sirach is an apocryphal Jewish work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew.

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Bosporan Kingdom

The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia (Kapadokya, Greek: Καππαδοκία) is a historical region in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

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Cappadocian Greeks

Cappadocian Greeks, also known as Greek Cappadocians (Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Rumlar) or simply Cappadocians, are an ethnic Greek community native to the geographical region of Cappadocia in central-eastern Anatolia; roughly the Nevşehir and Kayseri provinces, and their surroundings, in modern-day Turkey.

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Didyma

Didyma (Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus.

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Euchites

The Euchites or Messalians were a Christian sect from Mesopotamia that spread to Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and Thrace.

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Gentile

Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.

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God-fearer

God-fearers (φοβούμενοι τὸν Θεόν, phoboumenoi ton Theon) or God-worshippers (θεοσεβεῖς, Theosebeis) were a numerous class of Gentile sympathizers to Hellenistic Judaism that existed in the Greco-Roman world, which observed certain Jewish religious rites and traditions without becoming full converts to Judaism. Hypsistarians and God-fearer are Jews and Judaism in the Roman Empire.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus (Grēgorios ho Nazianzēnos; Liturgy of the Hours Volume I, Proper of Saints, 2 January. – 25 January 390), also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was a 4th-century archbishop of Constantinople and theologian.

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Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory of Nyssa, also known as Gregory Nyssen (Γρηγόριος Νύσσης or Γρηγόριος Νυσσηνός; c. 335 – c. 394), was Bishop of Nyssa in Cappadocia from 372 to 376 and from 378 until his death in 394.

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Hemerobaptists

Hemerobaptists (Greek: 'day bathers') were a Jewish sect mentioned by some early Christian writers.

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Honorius (emperor)

Honorius (9 September 384 – 15 August 423) was Roman emperor from 393 to 423.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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Magarites

The Magharians ('people of the caves') or Maghāriya were, according to Jacob Qirqisani, a Jewish sect founded in the 1st century BCE.

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Nikephoros I of Constantinople

Nikephoros I or Nicephorus I (Greek: Νικηφόρος; c. 758 – 5 April 828) was a Byzantine writer and patriarch of Constantinople from 12 April 806 to 13 March 815.

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North Macedonia

North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.

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Oenoanda

Oenoanda or Oinoanda (𒃾𒅀𒉌𒌓𒉿𒀭𒁕|translit.

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Orphism (religion)

Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices originating in Thrace and later spreading to the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical Thracian poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.

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Pantikapaion

Pantikapaion (Παντικάπαιον, from Scythian *Pantikapa 'fish-path'; Panticapaeum) was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of Crimea, which the Greeks called Taurica.

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Persius

Aulus Persius Flaccus (4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.

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Phrygia

In classical antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.

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Pnyx

The Pnyx (Πνύξ; Πνύκα, Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece.

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Pontus (region)

Pontus or Pontos (translit) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים|Tehillīm|praises; Psalmós; Liber Psalmorum; Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.

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Revue des Études Juives

Revue des études juives is a French quarterly academic journal of Jewish studies, established in July 1880 at the École pratique des hautes études, Paris by the Société des Études Juives.

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Sabazios

Sabazios (translit, Savázios; alternatively, Sabadios) is a deity originating in Asia Minor.

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Sabbath

In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath or Shabbat (from Hebrew שַׁבָּת) is a day set aside for rest and worship.

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Second Temple Judaism

Second Temple Judaism is the Jewish religion as it developed during the Second Temple period, which began with the construction of the Second Temple around 516 BCE and ended with the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70CE. Hypsistarians and Second Temple Judaism are Jews and Judaism in the Roman Empire and second Temple period.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew. Hypsistarians and Septuagint are Hellenism and Christianity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsistarians

Also known as Hypsianistai, Hypsianoi, Hypsistarian, Hypsistianoi, Hypsistos, Hypsistus, Theos Hypsistos.

Hypsistarians, the Glossary

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Ancient Mediterranean religions

Hellenism and Christianity

Hellenistic religion

Second Temple period

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