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Josephus on the Rights of Alexandrian Jews
Late 1st Century
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Rights Granted to the Jews of Alexandria
Against Apion 2.37, 42–43
If he [Apion] had read the letters of King Alexander and those of Ptolemy, son of Lagos, and had he been conversant with the records of those kings of Egypt who succeeded him and with the monument…
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Jews' Privileges Lead to Tensions in Alexandria
The Jewish War 2.487–488
In Alexandria there had always been antagonism between the natives and the Jewish colony ever since Alexander, grateful for the Jews’ enthusiastic support against the Egyptians, had rewarded their…
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Early Jewish Diaspora Communities: Alexandria
2nd Century BCE–1st Century CE