Between Testaments
Undeceptions with John Dickson
The History of Judaism
In the late three hundreds, early 200 b c, Jews in the holy land were grappling vigorously with greek language. They also had to put up with greek politics, which suddenly got very complicated after alexander's victories and untimely death. The centre of gravity in judaism was no longer jerusalem. It actually did shift. But one of the things that ptolemy seems to have done is deported some of the dovidic descendants over to alexandria. And this was the beginning of the jewish munity in alexandrias.
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