By Douglas Galbi, the author of purple motes
A text probably authored before the fourth century GC refers to “Asaph the writer and historian of the Hebrews.” The text is preserved in a Syriac translation of a Greek text attributed to “Andronicus the Wise, the Philosopher, and the Learned.” That Andronicus cannot be confidently identified. The text concerns the naming of the signs of the Zodiac:
“The impression that one gathers from the wording of the translation is, however, that Andronicus was a Christian writer speaking of olden Pagan times of Greece. He relates how before his time a certain literary man called Asaph, a Jew and a “historian of the Hebrews,” had given to the twelve signs of the Zodiac the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. ..”
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