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Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 12.153

πρόνοιαν δὲ ποιοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἔθνους κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν, ὅπως ὑπὸ μηδενὸς ἐνοχλῆται.” περὶ μὲν οὖν τῆς ̓Αντιόχου φιλίας τοῦ μεγάλου πρὸς ̓Ιουδαίους ταῦτα ἡμῖν ἀποχρώντως εἰρήσθω μαρτύρια. Take care likewise of that nation, as far as thou art able, that they may not have any disturbance given them by any one.” Now these testimonials which I have produced are sufficient to declare the friendship that Antiochus the Great bare to the Jews.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 2.16, 43.7, 43.13, 44.1 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.16. גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹף ותחפנס [וְתַחְפַּנְחֵס] יִרְעוּךְ קָדְקֹד׃ 43.7. וַיָּבֹאוּ אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם כִּי לֹא שָׁמְעוּ בְּקוֹל יְהוָה וַיָּבֹאוּ עַד־תַּחְפַּנְחֵס׃ 43.13. וְשִׁבַּר אֶת־מַצְּבוֹת בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם וְאֶת־בָּתֵּי אֱלֹהֵי־מִצְרַיִם יִשְׂרֹף בָּאֵשׁ׃ 44.1. לֹא דֻכְּאוּ עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה וְלֹא יָרְאוּ וְלֹא־הָלְכוּ בְתוֹרָתִי וּבְחֻקֹּתַי אֲשֶׁר־נָתַתִּי לִפְנֵיכֶם וְלִפְנֵי אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם׃ 44.1. הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר הָיָה אֶל־יִרְמְיָהוּ אֶל כָּל־הַיְּהוּדִים הַיֹּשְׁבִים בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם הַיֹּשְׁבִים בְּמִגְדֹּל וּבְתַחְפַּנְחֵס וּבְנֹף וּבְאֶרֶץ פַּתְרוֹס לֵאמֹר׃ 2.16. The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head." 43.7. and they came into the land of Egypt; for they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD; and they came even to Tahpanhes." 43.13. He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.’" 44.1. The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying:"
2. Septuagint, 2 Maccabees, 8.20 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 8.20. and the time of the battle with the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand in all went into the affair, with four thousand Macedonians; and when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand and took much booty.'
3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Embassy To Gaius, 281 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 281. Concerning the holy city I must now say what is necessary. It, as I have already stated, is my native country, and the metropolis, not only of the one country of Judaea, but also of many, by reason of the colonies which it has sent out from time to time into the bordering districts of Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria in general, and especially that part of it which is called Coelo-Syria, and also with those more distant regions of Pamphylia, Cilicia, the greater part of Asia Minor as far as Bithynia, and the furthermost corners of Pontus. And in the same manner into Europe, into Thessaly, and Boeotia, and Macedonia, and Aetolia, and Attica, and Argos, and Corinth and all the most fertile and wealthiest districts of Peloponnesus.
4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 2.185, 11.339, 12.125, 12.133, 12.138-12.144, 12.147-12.152, 14.114-14.116, 14.323 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.185. After this, he desired Jacob to travel on slowly; but he himself took five of his brethren with him, and made haste to the king, to tell him that Jacob and his family were come; which was a joyful hearing to him. He also bid Joseph tell him what sort of life his brethren loved to lead, that he might give them leave to follow the same 11.339. And when he said to the multitude, that if any of them would enlist themselves in his army, on this condition, that they should continue under the laws of their forefathers, and live according to them, he was willing to take them with him, many were ready to accompany him in his wars. 12.125. 2. We also know that Marcus Agrippa was of the like disposition towards the Jews: for when the people of Ionia were very angry at them, and besought Agrippa that they, and they only, might have those privileges of citizens which Antiochus, the grandson of Seleucus, (who by the Greeks was called The God,) had bestowed on them, and desired that, if the Jews were to be joint-partakers with them 12.133. But afterward, when Antiochus subdued those cities of Celesyria which Scopas had gotten into his possession, and Samaria with them, the Jews, of their own accord, went over to him, and received him into the city [Jerusalem], and gave plentiful provision to all his army, and to his elephants, and readily assisted him when he besieged the garrison which was in the citadel of Jerusalem. 12.138. “King Antiochus To Ptolemy, Sendeth Greeting. /p“Since the Jews, upon our first entrance on their country, demonstrated their friendship towards us, and when we came to their city [Jerusalem], received us in a splendid manner, and came to meet us with their senate, and gave abundance of provisions to our soldiers, and to the elephants, and joined with us in ejecting the garrison of the Egyptians that were in the citadel 12.139. we have thought fit to reward them, and to retrieve the condition of their city, which hath been greatly depopulated by such accidents as have befallen its inhabitants, and to bring those that have been scattered abroad back to the city. 12.141. And these payments I would have fully paid them, as I have sent orders to you. I would also have the work about the temple finished, and the cloisters, and if there be any thing else that ought to be rebuilt. And for the materials of wood, let it be brought them out of Judea itself and out of the other countries, and out of Libanus tax free; and the same I would have observed as to those other materials which will be necessary, in order to render the temple more glorious; 12.142. and let all of that nation live according to the laws of their own country; and let the senate, and the priests, and the scribes of the temple, and the sacred singers, be discharged from poll-money and the crown tax and other taxes also. 12.143. And that the city may the sooner recover its inhabitants, I grant a discharge from taxes for three years to its present inhabitants, and to such as shall come to it, until the month Hyperberetus. 12.144. We also discharge them for the future from a third part of their taxes, that the losses they have sustained may be repaired. And all those citizens that have been carried away, and are become slaves, we grant them and their children their freedom, and give order that their substance be restored to them.” 12.147. Moreover, this Antiochus bare testimony to our piety and fidelity, in an epistle of his, written when he was informed of a sedition in Phrygia and Lydia, at which time he was in the superior provinces, wherein he commanded Zenxis, the general of his forces, and his most intimate friend, to send some of our nation out of Babylon into Phrygia. The epistle was this: 12.148. “King Antiochus To Zeuxis His Father, Sendeth Greeting. /p“If you are in health, it is well. I also am in health. 12.149. Having been informed that a sedition is arisen in Lydia and Phrygia, I thought that matter required great care; and upon advising with my friends what was fit to be done, it hath been thought proper to remove two thousand families of Jews, with their effects, out of Mesopotamia and Babylon, unto the castles and places that lie most convenient; 12.151. And when thou shalt have brought them to the places forementioned, thou shalt give everyone of their families a place for building their houses, and a portion of the land for their husbandry, and for the plantation of their vines; and thou shalt discharge them from paying taxes of the fruits of the earth for ten years; 12.152. and let them have a proper quantity of wheat for the maintece of their servants, until they receive breadcorn out of the earth; also let a sufficient share be given to such as minister to them in the necessaries of life, that by enjoying the effects of our humanity, they may show themselves the more willing and ready about our affairs. 14.114. And Strabo himself bears witness to the same thing in another place, that at the same time that Sylla passed over into Greece, in order to fight against Mithridates, he sent Lucullus to put an end to a sedition that our nation, of whom the habitable earth is full, had raised in Cyrene; where he speaks thus: 14.115. “There were four classes of men among those of Cyrene; that of citizens, that of husbandmen, the third of strangers, and the fourth of Jews. Now these Jews are already gotten into all cities; and it is hard to find a place in the habitable earth that hath not admitted this tribe of men, and is not possessed by them; 14.116. and it hath come to pass that Egypt and Cyrene, as having the same governors, and a great number of other nations, imitate their way of living, and maintain great bodies of these Jews in a peculiar manner, and grow up to greater prosperity with them, and make use of the same laws with that nation also. 14.323. 6. The same thing did Antony write to the Sidonians, and the Antiochians, and the Aradians. We have produced these decrees, therefore, as marks for futurity of the truth of what we have said, that the Romans had a great concern about our nation.
5. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.39, 2.44 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.39. And what occasion is there to speak of others, when those of us Jews that dwell at Antioch are named Antiochians, because Seleucus the founder of that city gave them the privileges belonging thereto? After the like manner do those Jews that inhabit Ephesus and the other cities of Ionia enjoy the same name with those that were originally born there, by the grant of the succeeding princes; 2.44. of the same mind also was Ptolemy the son of Lagus, as to those Jews who dwelt at Alexandria.” For he intrusted the fortresses of Egypt into their hands, as believing they would keep them faithfully and valiantly for him; and when he was desirous to secure the government of Cyrene, and the other cities of Libya to himself, he sent a party of Jews to inhabit them.
6. New Testament, Acts, 13.14-13.15 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 13.14. But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. 13.15. After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
7. Anon., Letter of Aristeas, 26, 36, 13 13. for when by a combination of good fortune and courage he had brought his attack on the whole district of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia to a successful issue, in the process of terrorizing the country into subjection, he transported some of his foes and others he reduced to captivity. The number of those whom he transported from the country of the Jews to Egypt amounted to no less than a hundred thousand. of these he armed thirty thousand picked men and settled them in garrisons in the country districts. (And even before this time large numbers of Jews had come into Egypt with the Persian, and in an earlier period still others had been sent to Egypt to help Psammetichus in his campaign against the king of the Ethiopians. But these were nothing like so numerous as the captives whom Ptolemy the son of Lagus transported.)
8. Epigraphy, Seg, 17.823
9. Papyri, Cpj, 28, 22
10. Strabo, Geography, 12.3.39 12.3.39. My city is situated in a large deep valley, through which flows the Iris River. Both by human foresight and by nature it is an admirably devised city, since it can at the same time afford the advantage of both a city and a fortress; for it is a high and precipitous rock, which descends abruptly to the river, and has on one side the wall on the edge of the river where the city is settled and on the other the wall that runs up on either side to the peaks. These peaks are two in number, are united with one another by nature, and are magnificently towered. Within this circuit are both the palaces and monuments of the kings. The peaks are connected by a neck which is altogether narrow, and is five or six stadia in height on either side as one goes up from the riverbanks and the suburbs; and from the neck to the peaks there remains another ascent of one stadium, which is sharp and superior to any kind of force. The rock also has reservoirs of water inside it, A water-supply of which the city cannot be deprived, since two tube-like channels have been hewn out, one towards the river and the other towards the neck. And two bridges have been built over the river, one from the city to the suburbs and the other from the suburbs to the outside territory; for it is at this bridge that the mountain which lies above the rock terminates. And there is a valley extending from the river which at first is not altogether wide, but it later widens out and forms the plain called Chiliocomum; and then comes the Diacopene and Pimolisene country, all of which is fertile, extending to the Halys River. These are the northern parts of the country of the Amaseians, and are about five hundred stadia in length. Then in order comes the remainder of their country, which is much longer than this, extending to Babanomus and Ximene, which latter itself extends as far as the Halys River. This, then, is the length of their country, whereas the breadth from the north to the south extends, not only to Zelitis, but also to Greater Cappadocia, as far as the Trocmi. In Ximene there are halae of rock-salt, after which the river is supposed to have been called Halys. There are several demolished strongholds in my country, and also much deserted land, because of the Mithridatic War. However, it is all well supplied with trees; a part of it affords pasturage for horses and is adapted to the raising of the other animals; and the whole of it is beautifully adapted to habitation. Amaseia was also given to kings, though it is now a province.

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subject	book bibliographic info
acts of the apostles	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
aezani	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
agriculture	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
antioch,pisidian,archaeological excavation	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
antioch,pisidian,architecture	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
antioch,pisidian,history	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
antioch,pisidian	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
antiochus,iii	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
antiochus iii	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
archisynagōgoi,pagan associations	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
archisynagōgos	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
attalus i	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
babylon / babylonia	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67
bagnall,r.	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
bible/biblical	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
colonies,royal	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
community/communities (jewish),elephantine	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
creation	Beyerle and Goff (2022), Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, 407
demography	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 68
dossier of inscriptions	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
elephantine temple	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
flavius josephus	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
forgery	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 68
gauger,j.-d.	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 68
gazda,e.k.	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
grain	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67
jerusalem temple,destruction	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
jerusalem temple	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
jews	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
land,allotment of	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
land of onias	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
letter of aristeas	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
letters,formulae and style	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
lydia (also province)	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
mediators,royal	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
mesopotamia	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67
michigan,university of,antioch of pisidia	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
military,army	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
military,troops/forces	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
military	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
minor	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
ng,d.y.	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
noah	Rojas(2019), The Remains of the Past and the Invention of Archaeology in Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons, 208
onias community,flight / arrival to egypt	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
onias community,settlement	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
onias temple,history of	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
papyri/papyrology	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
parthians	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67
persian	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
philo of alexandria,judaism in asia minor	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
philo of alexandria	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021), Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays, 610
phrygia	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
prusias i	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 91
pseudepigraphy	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
ptolemy,seleucid governor	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
sabbath	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
seleucid	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
seleucid monarchy	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
seleucids,administration	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
seleucids,privileges granted jews	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 336
seleucids	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
soldiers/soldiery	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
units)'	Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 330
viticulture	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68
zeuxis	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 67, 68