David Noel Freedman Quotations

David Noel Freedman is a biblical scholar, "bookmaker" (author and editor), archaeologist, advocate, and initiator of inter-faith cooperation.

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The first Greek-speaking people in the southern Balkan Peninsula arrived in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus sometime after 2600 B.C. and developed, probably due to the extreme mountainous nature of the country, their several different dialects.
- The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992) p. 1093.