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Rights of the Jews of Antioch
Late 2nd Century BCE–1st Century CE
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Jews of Antioch Granted Citizenship
And why is it necessary to speak of the other [peoples], for our own [people] who inhabit Antioch are called Antiochenes, as Seleucus, its founder, granted them citizenship. Similarly, in Ephesus and…
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