required an embassy of some sort, which we read about in both First and Second Maccabees (1 Macc 14:24; 15:15-24; 2 Macc 4:11). [7] Second, about this same time, as a city, Rome was becoming [...] 1910) 55-60 and G. Haufe in Leipoldt-Grundmann, ed. Umwelt des Urchristentums (1965) 1. 116. ↩ Eugene N. Lane, “Sabazius and the Jews in Valerius Maximus: A Re-Examination” The Journal of [...] foreign court into behaving with indignity. ↩ Barclay, Negotiating Diaspora , 2. ↩ 2 Macc. 15:39 ↩