JUDAIC 320 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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Information on jews vary from one place to the other: archaeology. Jews die and inscriptions on tombs have hebrew words, such as. Shalom: remains of a synagogue, josephus (& other historians) The jews didn"t really like him: he still gave us good information about what jews were where. Inscriptions are found because archaeologists found them: christians (jesus"s students) preserved philo"s texts, paul knew of philo and took his analogies for the religion. Jews had protected citizenship in alexandria for 100s of years: there was violence against non-citizens not looked into by the state, summery: jews were separate community in a city. Community (and this was the only example of this in re) Was this the model of jewish communal life throughout re. In alexandria, jews have citizenship to city and to selves as jews: eliav doubts that this was the case everywhere. Jewish community there came from third largest city, antioch.
