Editing Phocylides (section)

==Works==
Phocylides of Miletus was once credited with writing [[Pseudo-Phocylides]], a complete [[didactic]] poem (230 hexameters). However, that text is now considered to be the work of an [[Alexandria]]n [[Christians|Christian]] of [[Jew]]ish origin who lived between 170 BC and AD 50. The Jewish element is shown in verbal agreement with passages of the [[Old Testament]] (especially the [[Wisdom of Sirach]]); the Christian by the doctrine of the [[immortality]] of the [[Soul (spirit)|soul]] and the [[resurrection]] of the body. Some Jewish authorities, however, maintain that there are in reality no traces of Christian [[doctrine]] to be found in the poem, and that the author was a Jew. The poem was first printed at Venice in 1495, and was a favourite school textbook during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] period.<ref name="Jewish_Encyclopedia">{{cite web |last1=Toy |first1=Crawford Howell |last2=Krauss |first2=Samuel |title=PSEUDO-PHOCYLIDES |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12417-pseudo-phocylides |website=Jewish Encyclopedia |accessdate=14 October 2018}}</ref>