summarized and quoted from his supposed translator, Philo of Byblos . Eusebius also quotes the neo-Platonist writer Porphyry as stating that Sanchuniathon of Berytus ( Beirut ) wrote the truest history about the Jews because he obtained records from "Hierombalus" (" Jerubbaal "? or "Hiram'baal" ?) priest of the god Ieuo