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To: masadaman
Even many Jews have short memories or are ignorant of their own history. The history of Greece is interwoven with the Jews since pre-Christian era...
...such as the massacre of the Jewish population of Alexandria for their crime of wanting to become citizens of that Greek colony, or the desecration of Jewish temples.
51 posted on 07/13/2006 8:52:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
"such as the massacre of the Jewish population of Alexandria for their crime of wanting to become citizens of that Greek colony, or the desecration of Jewish temples"

You have your history mixed up again I see. First off under Greek rule, according to Philos, the Jews of Alexandria enjoyed the same civil rights as Alexandrian citizens and quote: "not those of the Egyptians" ("In Flaccum," § 10; ed. Mangey, ii. 528). Oh and Josephus ("Contra Ap." ii. 4; B. J." ii. 18, § 7) says the same thing:

"Alexander permitted them the same rights as the Greeks. This privilege they preserved under the successors of Alexander, who permitted them to call themselves Macedonians. Nay, when the Romans took possession of Egypt neither the first Caesar nor his successors suffered the rights, which had been bestowed upon the Jews by Alexander, to be diminished."

You can find the civil rights of the Jews in Alexandria which Josephus talks about engraved upon a tablet of brass still existed today. The persecutions of the Jews of Alexandria which you are talking about occurred during ROMAN reign, such as that of Nero, Vespasian, Caligula, Flaccus, governor of Alexandria in which he issued an edict in which he called the Jews "aliens and residents". So I have no clue what the hell your talking about "wanting to become citizens of that Greek colony" since they were citizens from the time of its creations.

59 posted on 07/18/2006 4:16:29 PM PDT by apro
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