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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="A"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="abdias-bio-1" n="abdias_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Abdias</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Ἀβδίας</surname></persName>).</p><p>Abdias was called the first Bishop of Babylon.</p><div><head>Works</head><div><head><title>The History of the Apostolical contest</title></head><p>He was the pretended author of an Apocryphal book, entitled <title>The History of the
         Apostolical contest.</title> This work claims to have been written in Hebrew, to have been
        translated into Greek by Eutropius, and thence into Latin by Julius Africanus. It was
        however originally written in Latin, about <date when-custom="910">A. D. 910</date>.</p><div><head>Editions</head><p><bibl>It is printed in Fabricius, <hi rend="ital">Codex Apocryphus Novi Test.</hi> p.
          402. 8vo. Hamb. 1703.</bibl></p></div></div></div><byline>[<ref target="author.A.J.C">A.J.C</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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