by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas, Greco-Roman Period
Dio Cassius, Historia Romana LXVIII, 32:1-3: The Jewish Uprising Thus Trajan left the place and not long after began to fail in health. 32 Meanwhile the Jews in the region of Cyrene had put one Andreas at their head and were destroying both the Romans and the...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
Jews in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (332 BCE-7th century CE) Jews in the Hellenistic World Much more is known about the Jewish communities of the western Diaspora in this period. We have already met the small colony of Jewish troops that was based in Elephantine...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 310-79: A Jewish Babylonian Principalit CHAPTER 9. What Befell The Jews That Were In Babylon On Occasion Of Asineus And Anileus, Two Brethren. 1. A Very sad calamity now befell the Jews that were in Mesopotamia, and especially those...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
Josephus, Antiquities XX, 17-95: The Conversion of the House of Adiabene Large numbers of non-Jews were interested in Jewish practices in the Greco-Roman world. Yet to the Jews, a particular source of pride was the decision of the royal house of Adiabene, a...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
James D. Purvis and Eric Meyers. “Exile and Return: From the Babylonian Destruction to the Reconstruction of the Jewish State.” Part IV Excerpted from Ancient Israel From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple. Ed. Hershal Shanks. Washington, D.C.-...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Babylonian and Greco Roman Diasporas
By the Rivers of Babylon The Jewish dispersion in Mesopotamia dates from the Assyrian conquest of the kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C.E. The mass deportations which followed brought Jews to the region of northern Mesopotamia. When the Babylonians conquered the...
