The politeuma: guardian of civil rights or heavenly commonwealth in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Scholars have, for many years, been debating whether there existed a separate, governing body for the Jewish community in Alexandria during the Ptolemaic kingdoms and the Roman Empire. Opinion has ranged from the idea of ‘a state within a state’, where government of the Jewish community was autonomo...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Herder
2014
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Biblische Notizen
Year: 2014, Volume: 161, Pages: 77-98 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Alexandria
/ Ptolemies 323 BC-30 BC
/ Roman Empire
/ Jews
/ Politeuma
B Egypt (Antiquity) / Late period |
| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism TB Antiquity TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Egypt
B Judaism B Roman Empire B Politeuma B Ptolemies v323-v30 |