Guide
Ancient Jewish Communities of the Diaspora
2nd Century BCE–6th Century CE
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By Carol Bakhos
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Rights Granted to the Jews of Alexandria
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
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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Jewish War Captives Settle in Alexandria
But I thought that there was an opportune moment concerning matters about which I frequently asked Sosibius of Tarentum and Andreas, the head…
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The Jewish Ethnarchy of Alexandria
Accordingly, territory has been designated in Egypt specifically for the Jews, and a large portion of the city of Alexandria has been marked off for this nation. An ethnarch of their own has been…
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Ethnic Tensions after the Roman Conquest of Alexandria
Finally, when Alexandria had been captured by Caesar, she was reduced to such straits that she judged herself without hope for survival unless she could kill the Judeans with her own hands, having…
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Philo on the Jewish Settlement of Alexandria
What then did the governor of the country do? He knew that the city, as the rest of Egypt, has two kinds of inhabitants, us and them, and that…