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| Title: The Expulsion of the Jews from Rome in A.D. 19 Pages: 765-784 Type: Generic Year: 1989 Abstract: "Tiberius' expulsion of the Jews from Rome in A.D. 19 should be understood in the context of the corn-shortage and the civil unrest that it generated. The Jews of Rome were poor, depended on the annona, had suffered floods, and were prone to take to the streets. Tiberius' action was simply the conventional response of a beleagured administrator to a group deemed to be posing a threat to law and order. - D.J.H. // A discussion of the evidence - Josephus A.I.18,81-84, Tacitus Ann. 2,85,5, Suetonius Tib.36,1, Dio Cassius 57,18,5a - shows that in A.D. 19 Jewish men of military age were sent to unhealthy Sardinia to do service there and that the rest of the Jews as well as those non-Jews who had attached themselves to Judaism were expelled from Rome. The motive for this must have been to repress Jewish turbulence raised by the deficiency of the corn supply and the high price of corn. - A. Hilhorst" Keywords: Jewish History: Roman Era |