...looked upon as barbarous superstitions. For example (i6()C) : Because it was the Sabbath day the Jews sat in their places immovable while the enemy were planting ladders against the walls of Jerusalem and capturing the defenses, and they did not get up, but remained there, fast bound in...

...several writers. Plutarch relates that when the Jews were attacked on the Sabbath during a siege, they sat in their places immovable while the enemy were...bound in the toils of superstition as in one great net.196 According to Dio Cassius, the Romans profited from this Jewish custom of not doing any sort...

...Jewish observance of the sabbath, to their own great cost: God is brave hope, not cowardly excuse. But the Jews, because it was the Sabbath Day, sat in their places immoveable while the enemy were planting ladders against the walls and capturing the defences, and...

...their ladders against the walls, while the Jews, because it was the Sabbath, refused to resist, being "fast bound in the toils of superstition as in one great net." Though he (De Superstitione 8.169AC) is, in general, not unsympathetic to the Jews, he is clearly critical...

...59. The allusion here is apparently to the Jewish custom of having fish at the Sabbath evening meal. But the Jews, because it was the Sabbath day, sat...planting ladders against the walls and capturing the defenses, and they did not get up, but remained there, fast bound in the toils of superstition as in...

...prostrations."51 Elsewhere in the same essay he refers to the Jewish abstention from selfdefense on a Sabbath: "But the Jews, because it was the Sabbath day, sat...remained there, fast bound in the toils of superstition (deisidaimonia) as in one great net."52 It is not entirely clear which conquest of Jerusalem Plutarch...

...Teixn KcrcaXanpavovTcov, OUK dvEOTT|aav dXA' eu,eivav ev aayf|vr| uig ifl 8eim8cauoviiji m)v8e8euevoi. But the Jews because it was the Sabbath day, sat in...bound in the toils of superstition as in one great net.31 These caricatures of Sabbath observance as idleness or cowardice are significant because they...

...that led Jews to refuse to defend themselves on that day as a "cowardly excuse," the result of being "fast bound in the toils of superstition as in one great net" (Superstition 8 [Mor. 169C]). Jewish abstinence from pork (the "most proper type of meat," according...

...GLAJJ no. 256) it is said that 'because it was the sabbath, the Jews sat immovable in their places while the enemy were planting ladders against the walls and capturing the defenses, and they did not get up but remained there, bound in deisidaimonia as in one great net.'...

...result fatally by men's superstition" (8, 168F), he describes an incident in which Jews sat passively "while the enemy were planting ladders against the walls and capturing the defences," offering no resistance simply because the assault took place on the sabbath.36 In the earlier example,...