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	Aquila - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aquila (constellation): the astronomical constellation of The Eagle.
		Aquila, Veracruz, is a municipality and its main town in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
		Aquila, Switzerland, is a village in the canton of Ticino.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aquila (319 words)

	Sinope
		Fruitlessly besieged in 220 B.C. by Mithridates IV, King of Pontus, Sinope was taken by Pharnaces in 183 B.C., and became the capital and residence of the kings of Pontus.
		In November, 1853, the Turkish fleet was destroyed by the Russians in the port of Sinope.
		Sinope is now the chief town of a sanjak of the vilayet of Castamouni, containing 15,000 inhabitants, about one half of whom are Greek schismatics.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/sinope.html (309 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - AQUILA (Ακύλας, V02p034001.jpg): (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The scrupulous exactness with which Aquila translates the particles is to be explained by his having been a disciple of Akiba, whose method of exegesis was to lay great stress upon the meanings hidden in the lesser parts of speech.
		Aquila represents a period in Jewish exegesis anterior to the Masoretic vocalization.
		Aquila went to Palestine, and devoted himself so strenuously to the study of the Torah that both R. Eliezer and R. Joshua noticed his worn appearance, and were surprised at the evident earnestness of the questions he put to them concerning Jewish law.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1674&letter=A (3495 words)

	Aquila - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aquila is the name of a municipality and its main town in Mexico.
		Aquila was a Judaised Greek of Sinope, in Pontus, who executed a literal translation of the Old Testament into Greek in the interest of Judaism versus Christianity in the first half of the 2nd century AD.
		Aquila, Inc. (NYSE: ILA) is an electric and gas utility headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
	www.unipedia.info /Aquila.html (321 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Aquila (history)
		Aquila (astronomy), (Latin, “the eagle”), constellation of the northern hemisphere, prominent in summer months.
		Aquila (history), called Aquila of Pontus, (2nd century ad) translator of the Old Testament into Greek, born in Sinope, Pontus (now Sinop, Turkey)....
		Aquila, Johann Kaspar (1488-1560), German religious reformer, born Johann Kaspar Adler in Augsburg, Germany.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Aquila_(history).html (84 words)

	Family History, The Name Aquila Section 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aquila also called Akilas flourished 2nd century AD scholar who in about AD 140 completed a literal translation into Greek of the Old Testament; it replaced the Septuagint (q.v.) among Jews and was used by the Church Fathers Origen in the 3rd century and St. Jerome in the 4th and 5th centuries.
		Aquila's exacting translation is important for what it reveals of the original Hebrew text of the Bible and also for what it demonstrates about the state of Hebrew learning in his time.
		Aquila, the Eagle: d=5 deg, a=20h: In Greek mythology, Aquila was the eagle belonging to Zeus, ruler on Mount Olympus.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /the.nook/dacinfo/aquila.htm (2073 words)

	Pontus
		The period of Hittite domination in Asia Minor followed hard after, and there is increasing reason to suppose that the Hittites occupied certain leading city sites in Pontus, constructed the artificial mounds or tumuli that frequently meet the eyes of modern travelers, hewed out the rock tombs, and stamped their character upon the early conditions.
		Sinope was in Paphlagonia, but politically as well as commercially enjoyed intimate relations with the Pontic cities.
		Another colony from Sinope founded Trebizond, near which Xenophon and the Ten Thousand reached the sea again after they had sounded the power of Persia and found it hollow at Cunaxa.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/pontus.htm (1304 words)

	Versions of the Bible
		The first and the most original is that of Aquila, a native of Sinope in Pontus, a proselyte to Judaism, and according to St. Jerome, a pupil of Rabbi Akiba who taught in the Palestinian schools, 95-135.
		Aquila, taking the Hebrew as he found it, proves in his rendering to be "a slave to the letter".
		The earliest is on the Pentateuch and is known as the Targum of Onkelos, whom tradition has identified with Aquila and whose Greek translation has something of the same literal character.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/versions_of_bible.html (11873 words)

	Texts on Bar Kochba: Epiphanius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now Aquila was related to the emperor by marriage and was from Sinope in Pontus.
		So Aquila, while he was in Jerusalem, also saw the disciples of the disciples of the apostles flourishing in the faith and working great signs, healings and other miracles.
		Aquila's translation was more literal and is sometimes ununderstable without knowledge of the Greek original.
	www.livius.org /ja-jn/jewish_wars/bk04.html (670 words)

	Corinth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 4th century BC, Corinth was home to Diogenes of Sinope, one of the world's best known cynics.
		Here he first became acquainted with Aquila and Priscilla, and soon after his departure Apollos came from Ephesus.
		Although he intended to pass through Corinth the second time before he visited Macedonia, circumstances were such, in the absence of Titus, that he went from Troas to Macedonia, and then likely passed into Corinth for a "second benefit" (2 Corinthians 1:15), and remained for three months, according to Acts 20:3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corinth (2044 words)

	The Oracles of God (No. 184)
		Brenton in his translation of the LXX considers that Aquila's version was substituted by the rabbinical authorities for the original LXX because of its more literal Hebrew idiom.
		Aquila was placed next to the Hebrew text seemingly because it was most like it and Theodotion next to the LXX for the same reason.
		Aquila is ascribed to the first decades of the second century; Theodotion is placed in the time of Commodus (180-192 CE); and Symmachus later, by Schurer, but Irenaeus lists Theodotion before Aquila and Schurer thinks this is irrelevant for the dates of translations (ibid., p.
	ccg.org /english/s/p184.html (13473 words)

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		Aquila and Priscilla were companions in labor, working along side of Paul and assisting him in his work.
		Aquila and Priscilla were with Paul in both Corinth and Ephesus.
		The church in the house of Aquila and Priscilla.
	wotruth.com /COMMENTARIES-NEW/Romans/rom-49.htm (11091 words)

	Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Pliny, Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The city of Sinope is ill supplied, Sir, with water, which, however, may be brought thither from about sixteen miles distance, in great plenty and perfection.
		For, I have no manner of doubt that it is proper the city of Sinope should be supplied with water; provided their finances will bear the expense of a work so conducive to their health and pleasure.
		Paccius Aquila, centurion in the sixth equestrian cohort, requested me, Sir, to transmit his petition to you, in favor of his daughter.
	www.princeton.edu /~champlin/cla219/219pliny.htm (11316 words)

	Adrian and Natalia, Alexis, Aquila, Athanasius, Barbara , Barnabas, Basil, Carpus and Papylus, Daniel the Stylite, ...
		Adrian and Natalia, Alexis, Aquila, Athanasius, Barbara, Barnabas, Basil, Carpus and Papylus, Daniel the Stylite, Dorothy
		He was born at Sinope on the Black Sea coast, thus called Aquila of Pontus.
		He translated the Old Testament into Greek language in an extremely literal form that most of the Jews of his time preferred his work to the Septuagint version.
	www.meandertravel.com /biblicalanatolia/majorsaintsi.htm (1554 words)

	Untitled Document
		Aquila, the Jewish proselyte, is another important, if indirect first century witness to the number of books.
		Aquila the translator was of Pontus, from the famous sea-port Sinope…but he was of Gentile origin.
		Swete notes that Aquila was approved by the Talmud, and since the Talmud approved only the traditional books of the Hebrew canon, it seems clear that the number of books Aquila translated would have been twenty-two or twenty-four.
	www.christiantruth.com /Apocryphapart1.html (9717 words)

	Body
		Marcion was born at Sinope, a town on the Black Sea.
		When he arrived in Rome, he became a student of and was influenced by the Gnostic teacher Cerdo.
		He was born at Sinope on the Black Sea coast, and martyred there.
	hkocaturk.tripod.com /saints/body2.htm (10176 words)

	Version Descriptions
		130 and 150 by Aquila, a proselyte to Judaism from Sinope in Pontus, who, according to Jerome, was a pupil of Rabbi Akiba between a.d.
		In the 1st half of the 3rd cent., Origen made use of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion in his effort to save the LXX by bringing it into line with the Hebrew text of his day.
		It was a stupendous task that required the diligent labour of nearly a quarter of a century.
	www.nisbett.com /versions/bible03.htm (8995 words)

	ORB Bible Main Page
		In the third column was the Greek version of Aquila, a native of Sinope in Pontus, who lived under Hadrian (117-38).
		Aquila's version was painfully literal, staying faithful to the Hebrew idiom at the expense of any attempt at good Greek grammar.
		Aquila's work was thus of assistance in fixing the meaning of words, and his influence can still be traced in the Latin Version."
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/religion/bible/bible.html (8560 words)

	Jerome-Preface to the Four Gospels
		[3] Aquila belonged to the second century, but whether to the first half, or to the early part of the second half, cannot be determined.
		He was a Jewish proselyte, of Sinope in Pontus, and is supposed to have translated the books of the Old Testament into Greek in order to assist the Hellenistic Jews in their controversies with Christians.
		"The mode of translation adopted by him holds an intermediate place between the scrupulous literality of Aquila and the free interpretation of Symmachus," and his work was more highly valued by Christians than that of either Aquila or Symmachus.
	people.bu.edu /dklepper/RN305/jerome1.html (950 words)

	Bible 101 - An Introduction To The Bible In 8 Easy Lessons
		Among the Greek Versions, we number the Septuagint, the Aquila, and the Theodotion.
		It is interesting to note that the Apostles quoted from the Septuagint, when writing their NT manuscripts.
		The Aquila was a translation made by a resident of Sinope, in Pontus, named Aquila, who converted to Judaism.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/18327/1588/1 (698 words)

	St Peter's - Saint Peter's by James Lees-Milne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He may have traveled by way of Pontus on the southern shore of the Black Sea, meeting and making a fast friendship with another tent-maker, Aquila, 'a Jew born in Pontus', whom he converted to the Christian faith.
		Arrived in Rome, he is said to have lodged in the house of his friend Aquila and his wife Priscilla, who had preceded him, presumably on the husband's business.
		There was most probably a temporary break in the ministry when he found it politic to leave the city.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Docs/JLM/SaintPeters-1.htm (6582 words)

	Jesus As A Teacher Within the Perennial Tradition
		One of the cities visited by Paul or his associates was Sinope, a Greek commercial city on the south shore of the Black Sea.
		Marcion was born in 85 C.E. at Sinope, the son of a Christian bishop.
		For this "false teaching" he was excom- municated from the Sinope church.
	www.hermes-press.com /Perennial_Tradition/PTch13.htm (7858 words)

	Epiphanius of Salamis, Weights and Measures (1935) pp.11-83. English translation
		The asterisk is this ; and wherever used it indicates that the word used occurs in the Hebrew, and occurs in Aquila* and Symmachus, and rarely also in Theodotion.
		But, moreover, by the followers of Aquila, with harshness of sound the word is superfluously used in two places instead of one, that is, instead of "years," "year" and "year."
		But it is not so; but Origen, having learned that the translation of the seventy-two was correct, placed it in the middle so that it might refute the translations on either side.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/epiphanius_weights_03_text.htm (16164 words)

	The First Church of Rome Part 3
		The other Bible-believing house-church at Santa Prisca had long ceased to operate: Aquila and Priscilla had moved to Ephesus, on the evidence of Paul's last letter to Timothy, way back in the 60s of the first century AD.
		19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
		In which way it is necessary that all who come to the faith should forsake the idols which were invented by devils, that they might not give scandal to the Jews that were among the Gentiles.
	www.christianhospitality.org /pages_20items/pt3_first_church_rome.htm (15420 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: News & Events: 05.01.99: Data from Pioneer 10 may determine if it is Still Interior ...
		The last communication from Pioneer 11 was received in November 1995, shortly before the Earth's motion carried it out of view of the spacecraft antenna.
		The spacecraft is headed toward the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle), Northwest of the constellation of Sagittarius.
		Pioneer 11 may pass near one of the stars in the constellation in about 4 million years.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /news/display.cfm?News_ID=142 (710 words)

	Septuagint, LXX, Versions of the Bible, History of the Bible
		These translations and paraphrases were at first oral, but they were afterwards reduced to writing, and thus targums, i.e., "versions" or "translations", have come down to us.
		He was born in Sinope, Pontus (now Sinop, Turkey).
		His translation of the Old Testament was so literal that Jews of his time preferred it to the Septuagint version, as did the Judaistic sect of Christians called Ebionites.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/septuagi.htm (3736 words)

	Marcion
		In AD 49, Rome experienced disturbances in the Jewish community that had been provoked by the preaching of "Chrestus" (based on the account of Suetonius in J. Steven's New Eusebius.
		"[Aquila] and his wife Priscilla had recently left Italy because an edict of Claudius had expelled all the Jews from Rome" (Acts 18:2, Jerusalem Bible).
		It seems notable at this time (AD 49) that "Jews" in general were expelled, and not simply followers of "Chrestus" or "Chrestians." "Was it because at this early date the Roman authorities did not or could not clearly differentiate between the Christians and the Jews?" (Wilson.
	www.sullivan-county.com /id2/marcion.htm (3497 words)

	HISTORY OF HERESIES
		-- Marcion was a native of the city of Sinope, in the province of Pontus, and the son of a Catholic bishop.
		In his early days he led a life of continence and retirement; but for an act of immorality he was cut off from the Church by his own father.
		The Tetrapla had four columns in each page; in the first was the version of the seventy, or Septuagint, in the second that of Aquila, in the third that of Simmachus, and in the fourth that of Theodotian.
	www.catholicapologetics.info /apologetics/protestantism/hrefute.htm (11383 words)

	detailed.T2.2004.html
		The library is the tomb and memorial of Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, proconsul of Asia in 106 AD, and was built by his son Aquila.
		Thanks to years of restoration by the Austrian excavators, the two-story facade is virtually complete; the books were kept in rectangular niches in the walls of the inner room.
		On the north side of the river are numerous old mansion, many of them restored and some made into museums, and above them are the tombs of the Pontic kings (one of the most incredible sights in Turkey when they're illuminated at night).
	www.sporadestours.com /detailed.T2.2004.html (6996 words)

	Chapter 6: The Handwriting on the Wall Spelled "The Temple Falls"
		Concerning Aquila and Akiva, Philip Carrington tells us: “In the new generation, which flourished from about 90 to the war of 131, the greatest name was that of Akiba.
		Aquila made a fraudulent Greek translation of the Old Testament, which removed Messianic prophecies, in a deliberate attempt to mislead millions of unsuspecting Greek-speaking Jews for hundreds of years to come.
		This disaster was one of the main causes of Jews being separated, alienated and isolated from Jesus to this day, and may have been a deliberate attempt to cause just such an alienation.
	www.ramsheadpress.com /messiah/ch06.html (8285 words)

	Biblical Anatolia, Christian Saints, Holy Land, Book of Revelations, Seven Churches, Testaments, St. Paul's Jorneys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because these provinces had few major cities (except for Asia), we can make an educated guess as to which cities the messenger visited.
		His stops in Pontus would be at the ports of Sinope and Amisus (Paul’s coworker Aquila was a Jew from Pontus; Acts 18:2).
		Amisus was at the head of a road that cut inland through the rugged mountains along the Black Sea coast.
	www.meandertravel.com /biblicalanatolia/saintpeter.htm (397 words)

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