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Dio Chrysostom

40–115 CE

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Dio Chrysostom (40/50–after 110 C.E.), or Dio Cocceianus (not to be confused with the church father John Chrysostom), a rhetorician, orator, Stoic philosopher, was the author of numerous speeches, compiled as Discourses. According to his biographer, Synesius, Dio Chrysostom (3.2) makes reference to the Essenes.

Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005), 290.

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