Shortly after the author's conversion to Christianity he began to read the Scriptures systematically and became curious about the identity of a group of people who were referred to as Greeks. Why were they called Greeks, when clearly they were not from Greece at all? Who were they? And why did they seem to be so important? He quickly established the standard answer, that these Greeks were simply Gentiles or non-Jews. But if the word Greek was a synonym for Gentile, then who were the Barbarians and the Scythians? Undoubtedly they were Gentiles as they were not Israelites, yet they were clearly...