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aliens... allowing any one who was inclined to proceed to exterminate the Jews as prisoners of war." Philo says that in response, the mobs "drove the Jews entirely out of four quarters, and crammed them all into a very small portion of one ... while the populace, overrunning their desolate houses, turned to plunder, and divided the booty among themselves as if they had obtained it in war." In addition, Philo says their enemies, "slew them and thousands of others with all kinds of agony and tortures, and newly invented cruelties, for wherever they met with or caught sight of a Jew, they stoned him, or beat him with sticks". Philo even says, "the most merciless of all their persecutors in some instances burnt whole families, husbands with their wives, and infant children with their parents, in the middle of the city, sparing neither age nor youth, nor the innocent helplessness of infants." Some men, he says, were dragged to death, while "those who did these things, mimicked the sufferers, like people employed in the representation of theatrical farces". Other Jews were
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of Alexandria, an unprecedented provocation. This invasion of the synagogues was perhaps resisted by force, since Philo then writes that Flaccus "was destroying the synagogues, and not leaving even their name." In response, Flaccus then "issued a notice in which he called us all foreigners and
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was divided into 5 quarters, two of which were occupied almost entirely by Jews. In the ensuing riots, Jews were expelled from one of their quarters and forced to move to the remaining last quarter held by them in the city, which caused overcrowding.
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Philo writes that Flaccus permitted a mob to erect statues of
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population in 38. According to some accounts, including
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The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian
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Index

Roman
eques
praefectus
Roman Egypt
riots
Alexandria
Jewish
Philo
Augustus
Andros
Alexandria
Caligula
god
synagogues
crucified
List of governors of Roman Egypt
Guido Bastianini
"Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30 al 299"
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian
ISBN
0-691-01575-9


Richard James Horatio Gottheil
Samuel Krauss
Flaccus
The Jewish Encyclopedia
Philo of Alexandria
Philo

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