#dositheus

Dositheus | Founder, Rituals, History and More.

All About Dositheus OR Dositheos Dositheus occasionally also known as Nathanael, both meaning “gift of God”, Dositheos Was a Samaritan religious leader of Arab origins. Founder of a Samaritan sect often assumed to be Gnostic in nature. He is reputed to have known John the Baptist and been either a teacher or a rival of Simon Magus. Dositheus Founder: Dositheus lived later than Simon Magus, the…

The Thracians in the Old Testament

In a recent post I wrote about Dositheus, one of the Tubian Jews, a warrior who served in the army of Judas Maccabeus (2 Maccabees 12:35). Dositheus, who was on horseback and was a strong man, was fighting against one of the enemies of the Jews. Dositheus caught hold of Gorgias, a general in the Indumeans army, and grasping his cloak, forcibly dragged him, wishing to take him alive. Thracian…

In the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees Chapter 12, there is an interesting reference to the Tubian Jews. The Tubian Jews were a “group of Jews Judas Maccabeus encountered (2 Macc 12:17) in his search for an opponent named Timothy” (Redditt 1992:6:622): “Judas and his men invoked the great Sovereign of the world who without battering-ram or siege-engine had overthrown Jericho in the days of Joshua;…

Agasias of Ephesus. Borghese Gladiator. ca. 100 BC.

Marble.