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Jewish Expulsion under Roman Emperors
1st–3rd Centuries
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Tiberius Bans Egyptian and Jewish Practice
Annals 2.85
There was also discussion of driving out Egyptian and Jewish rites, and a senatorial decree was passed ordering 4,000 persons of the freedman class who had been infected with such superstition, and…
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Tiberius Expels Egyptians and Jews
Tiberius 36
He abolished foreign cults, especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia. Those of…
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Tiberius Expels Jews from Rome
Jewish Antiquities 18.81–84
There was a Jewish man who had fled from his homeland due to an accusation of transgressing certain laws, as well as fearing punishment for the same, and he was in all respects a wicked man. He, then…
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Claudius Expels Jews from Rome
Acts 18:1–3
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews…
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Claudius Bans Jewish Assembly
Roman History 60.6.6
As for the Jews, who had again increased so greatly that by reason of their multitude it would have been hard without raising a tumult to bar them from the city, he did not drive them out, but ordered…