¹¹⁰ ‘The Sadducees say, We cry out against you, O Pharisees, for you say that the Holy Scriptures render the hands unclean but that the books of Homer do not render the hands unclean’ (m. Yad. 4. 6); on which see Hengel (1974), 1. 75, who plausibly suggests that ‘books of Homer’ was a stereotyped designation of Greek literature in general, much as Biro, Hoover, and Xerox have become generic descriptives in the twentieth century.