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The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible has been a classic Bible study resource for more than thirty years. Now thoroughly revised, this new five-volume edition provides up-to-date entries based on the latest scholarship. Beautiful full-color pictures supplement the text, which includes new articles in addition to thorough updates and improvements of existing topics. Different viewpoints of...

and teacher of the primitive church at ANTIOCH OF SYRIA (Acts 13:1), were Jews of Cyrene. STEPHEN witnessed at a synagogue of foreign freedmen that included in its membership men of Cyrene, ALEXANDRIA, CILICIA, and ASIA. They instigated the people against Stephen, who was brought before the SANHEDRIN, convicted of blasphemy, and then stoned. Converted Cyrenians, who were scattered because of the persecution that started with Stephen, preached to Gentiles at Antioch (Acts 11:20). Cyrene was an important
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