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First chapter of the first part touches (anti-)semitism in pre-Christian times, from Egypt to pre-Christian Rome, citing various surviving text fragments. It is interesting that the first explicit reference of Jewish people in Ancient Greece, where Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus, repelled by their sacrafice rituals, contains the word Holokautountes (whole burnt offering; complete burning = holos-kaustos).