TY - BOOK ID - 77933720 TI - The Alexandrian riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of the Jews PY - 2009 SN - 1282603086 9786612603082 9047441915 9789047441915 9781282603080 9789004138469 9004138463 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Judenverfolgung. KW - Unruhen. KW - Jews KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Civil rights KW - History KW - Persecutions KW - Alexandria. KW - Alexandria (Egypt) KW - Iskandarīyah (Egypt) KW - Alexandrie (Egypt) KW - Aleksandriyah (Egypt) KW - Alessandria (Egypt) KW - Alexandreia (Egypt) KW - Aleksandria (Egypt) KW - Alexantreia (Egypt) KW - Alesandriʼa (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (Egypt) KW - الإسكندرية (مصر) KW - اسكندرية (Egypt) KW - Ethnic relations. KW - History. KW - Politics and government. KW - Riots KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Civil disorders KW - Assembly, Right of KW - Offenses against public safety KW - Political violence KW - Crowds KW - Demonstrations KW - Mobs KW - Street fighting (Military science) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933720 AB - Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles. ER -