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| Title: The Jewish attitude to the Alexandrian gymnasium in the first century A.D. Secondary Title: AJAH Volume: 1 Pages: 148-161 Type: Journal Article Year: 1976 Abstract: "Analysis of the evidence of three papyrus documents. B.G.U. 1140, P. Lond. 1912, and P.S.I. 1160, does not support the commonly held view that the Jews in Alexandria in the 1st cent. A.D. struggled to obtain equal civic rights in the Alexandrian polis. In the most important of these documents, Claudius' Letter to the Alexandrians, P. Lond. 1912, the emperor simply warns the Jews not to harass the public games organized by the gymnasiarchs and the cosmetes. There is no reason to question, on the basis of these papyri, Josephus' statements about the civic status of the Alexnadrian Jews". Keywords: Egypt, Judaism in Alexandria and Egypt |