Suetonius Claudius 25.4, Acts 18, and Paulus Orosius' "Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII:" Dating the Claudian Expulsion(s) of Roman Jews
Modern scholarship asserts that the Claudian expulsion of Roman Jews referred to in Suetonius Claudius 25.4 occurred in 41 or 49 CE, while nineteenth-century scholars augued for a 52 CE date. In examining all evidence available for a solution to this problem, the present study comes to the conclusio...
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| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
1992
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1992, Volume: 83, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 127-144 |
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| Summary: | Modern scholarship asserts that the Claudian expulsion of Roman Jews referred to in Suetonius Claudius 25.4 occurred in 41 or 49 CE, while nineteenth-century scholars augued for a 52 CE date. In examining all evidence available for a solution to this problem, the present study comes to the conclusion that Claudius may in fact have expelled Jews from Rome more than once. However, though a difficult year for Jews under the new emperor, 41 CE is not probable as the date of any expulsion, and 49 CE, supported mainly by the unreliable witness of Acts 18 and Orosius, is no more likely than any other year between 42 and 54 CE for such an act or acts on the part of Claudius. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1455110 |