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  • 6 - The Diaspora in the Roman period before ce 70

  • Edited by William Horbury, University of Cambridge, W. D. Davies, Duke University, North Carolina, John Sturdy
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Judaism
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    09 December 1999, pp 168-191

  • Summary

    Rome's acquisition of a territorial empire in the eastern Mediterranean between the mid second and the mid first century bce put all the numerous Diaspora communities of Greece, the Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus, Asia Minor, Syria, and Cyrenaica under her rule. The annexation of Egypt in 30 bce, closing the only gap in the ring of provinces bordering the Mediterranean, brought into the empire what was probably the largest of all Diaspora communities at the time, that of Alexandria, as well as many smaller Jewish settlements up-country in Egypt. In the west the Jewish community in Rome, apparently dating back at least to the mid second century, was dramatically enlarged in 62 bce when Pompey returned from eastern campaigns which had included the capture of Jerusalem with thousands of Jewish prisoners-of-war, who were sold into slavery after walking in his triumphal procession and later, on regaining their freedom by manumission, settled permanently in the city.

    With the annexation of the province of Judaea in ce 6, all Jews except the Babylonian Diaspora were under Roman rule. The pax Romana and the improvements in communications which followed the expansion of Roman power throughout the Mediterranean world facilitated movement and the development of Diaspora communities in Italy and the western provinces. No date or origin can be assigned to the numerous settlements eventually known in the west, and some may have been founded as a result of the dispersal of Palestinian Jews after the revolts of ce 66–70 and 132–5, but it is reasonable to conjecture that many, such as the settlement in Puteoli attested in 4 bce, went back to the late republic or early empire and originated in voluntary emigration and the lure of trade and commerce.

  • Behind the New Testament

  • E. Mary Smallwood
  • Journal:
    Greece & Rome / Volume 17 / Issue 1 / April 1970
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 81-99
    Print publication:
    April 1970

  • It has been the fate of the Jewish people to spend most of their history under foreign rule, and Rome, who governed Palestine during the period of the New Testament and for centuries after it, was only one of a series of powers who throughout the ages became masters of the country for varying lengths of time and controlled it with varying success.

  • Atticus, Legate of Judaea Under Trajan

  • E. Mary Smallwood
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 1-2 / November 1962
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 September 2012, pp. 131-133
    Print publication:
    November 1962

  • Eusebius, quoting Hegesippus, records that during Trajan's reign Symeon son of Cleopas, a cousin of Christ, was martyred in Judaea as a Christian ἐπὶ … Άττικοῦ τοῦ ὑπατικοῦ —which at first sight appears to mean ‘when Atticus was consular legate’. Atticus was clearly the legate of Judaea at the time. The suggestion that he was legate of the consular province of Syria can be disregarded, as there is no reason why an event in Judaea should be dated by the governor of another province. Two problems arise—the date of Atticus' command, and his rank as legate.

  • The Hadrianic Inscription from the Caesareum at Cyrene

  • E. Mary Smallwood
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 42 / Issue 1-2 / November 1952
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 September 2012, pp. 37-38
    Print publication:
    November 1952

  • In the Journal of Roman Studies, XL, 1950, 88–90, Mr. S. Applebaum published a number of inscriptions from Cyrene recording Hadrian's work in restoring the city after the devastation caused by the Jewish revolt late in Trajan's reign. One of these (D 1) consists of fragments of an inscription from the Caesareum, which Mr. Applebaum read as follows:—

    [– –DIVI N]ER[V]AE NE[POS] TRAI[AN]VS H[ADRIANVS] AVGV

    [STVS – –]/TP I[I COS] II BASILIC[AM – –]

    The inscription was carved on the re-used limestone blocks of the Doric architrave which crowned the longitudinal porticos of the Basilica. But traces of the earlier, erased inscription are still visible in several places between the letters of the inscription now under discussion, and it is in the light of this fact, which was not noticed by Mr. Applebaum, that two alterations are here suggested in his reading of the inscription.