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SANCHUNIATHON (Gr. See also:form of Phoenician Sakkun-yathon, " the See also:god Sakkun has given ")  , an See also:ancient Phoenician See also:sage, who belongs more to See also:legend than to See also:history . He is said to have flourished " even before the Trojan times," " when See also:Semiramis was See also:queen of the Assyrians." See also:Philo Herennius of Byblus claimed to have translated his mythological writings from the Phoenician originals . According to Philo, See also:Sanchuniathon derived the sacred See also:lore from the mystic See also:inscriptions on the 'AµµovveZI (probably hammdnim, " See also:sun pillars," cf . Is. See also:xxvii . 9, &c.) which stood in the Phoenician temples . That any writings of Sanchuniathon ever existed it is impossible to say . Philo See also:drew his traditions from various See also:sources, adapted them to suit his purpose, and conjured with a See also:venerable name to gain See also:credit for his narrative . See also:Porphyry says that Sanchuniathon (here called a native of Byblus) wrote a history of the See also:Jews, based on See also:information derived from Hierombal (i.e . Jeruba'al), a See also:priest of the See also:god Jevo (i.e . Yahveh, See also:Jehovah), and dedicated it to Abelbal or Abibal, See also:king of Berytus . The See also:story is probably a pure invention; the reference to Berytus shows that it is See also:late . See See also:Eusebius, Praep .

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Ea. i . 9 (See also:Muller, Fragm. hist . Graec. iii. pp . 563 See also:foil.) .

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