Jewish Author Philo of Alexandria Describes the Murder of Jews and Destruction of Synagogues in Alexandria, Egypt
In 37 CE, the Jewish King Agrippa I stopped in Alexandria, Egypt, en route from Rome to Jerusalem. At that time, Aulus Avilius Flaccus, the Governor of Roman Egypt, allowed an anti-semitic mob to murder, and destroy the property of the Jewish community members.
Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, a Hellenistic Jewish Philospher,wrote an eyewitness account:
“Jews were scourged, were hung up, were tortured on the wheel, were condemned, and were dragged to execution in the middle of the orchestra (theatre)...
...it was sufficiently evident that the report about the destruction of the synagogues, which took its rise in Alexandria, would be immediately spread over all the districts of Egypt and would extend from that country to the east and to the oriental nations, and from the borders of the land in the other direction…”
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In 37 CE, the Jewish King Agrippa I stopped in Alexandria enroute from Rome to Jerusalem. At that time, Aulus Avilius Flaccus, the Governor of Roman Egypt, allowed an anti-semitic mob to murder, and destroy the property of the Jewish community members.
Philo of Alexandria (Philo Judaeus) wrote an eyewitness account:
“Jews were scourged, were hung up, were tortured on the wheel, were condemned, and were dragged to execution in the middle of the orchestra (theatre)...
...it was sufficiently evident that the report about the destruction of the synagogues, which took its rise in Alexandria would be immediately spread over all the districts of Egypt, and would extend from that country to the east and to the oriental nations, and from the borders of the land in the other direction…”
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