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| Title: Alexander and the Jews Secondary Title: PAAJR Volume: 59 Pages: 59-101 Type: Journal Article Year: 1993 Abstract: in: EBB 11.2 (1995), 536: "Josephus A 11,302-323 false".
"Discusses the three variants of the legend - in Josephus, Rabbinic literature and Pseudo-Callisthenes. The article first examines the three ancient accounts that purport to tell how Alexander the Great met and dealt with the Jews of Judea: Josephus' Antiquities 11:302-303, 306-345; Megillat Ta'anit and b. Yoma 69a; and ps.-Callisthenes' Vita Alexandri (recension e) 20.2-5. Then after concluding that all three legends are false, it explores what light archaeology and authentic historical sources cast upon them, the message and date of each account, and what probably happened in 333 B.C. between the Jews, the Samaritains, and Alexander". - D.J.H. Keywords: Jewish History: Persian Era to the Maccabees |