Berytian

[P]reſently after Gideons death, the Iſraelites worſhipped Baal Berith, or Beryti, from the Citie called Berytum, [...] The like Judg[es] 9. 2, 4. i.e. the Idol of Berith, or the Berytian Citie. Whence it is moſt likely, that Gideon making a League, or having frequent Commerce with ſome Berytian perſon of great fame, it gave the occaſion of this piece of Jewiſh idolatrie, otherwiſe unknown: [...]

It will have been observed that the names of the Tyrian, Sidonian, and Berytian learned men and authors of the time—Antipater, Apollonius, Boëthus, Diodotus, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Paulus, Maximus, Porphyrius—are without exception either Latin or Greek.

[T]he book actually does cram together a great deal of legal knowledge. Schulz thought that it could only be a product, directly or indirectly, of the school of Beirut and proposed to rename it 'the Berytean lawbook'; [...]

Byzantine believers showed equally little interest in the removal of the Alexandrian school to Antioch after Olympiodorus, and of the Berytian law school to Sidon after the disastrous earthquake of 557.

The only detailed accounts of Berytian religious beliefs and practices are found in a number of Greek and Roman texts written in or after the first century ce.

Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.

One of the inscriptions set up by the Berytian association records how its members in their meetings had honored the Athenian people with crowns [...]

So that whether the Hermippus, whom he ſo frequently quotes, was the Smyrnean or the Berytian, is not always certain, and for the moſt part, can only be collected from Circumſtances and Conjecture.

Nonnus, the poet of Panopolis in Egypt, records this claim of the Berytians in verses [...]

It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.

Sanchuniathon also, a Sidonian according to some, according to others a Syrian, and to others a Berytean, is said to have lived before or during the time of the Trojan war.

In the commercial, social and religious activities of Delos, the Berytians occupied a position second only to that of the Italians.

If we widen the search for evidence to take in the undated, but Hellenistic, inscriptions recording the presence of Berytians, the picture is less restricted geographically, but equally instructive commercially.

At the time of the Messiah Jesus, Tyre had such a large number of Syrians (Arameans), Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Berytians, Aradians, Tripolitanians, Egyptians and Sareptians that there is no evidence, even according to the archaeological finds, that inhabitants had Tyrian/Phoenician blood.