All of them except a very small portion, and Babylon, and all the satrapies which contain fruitful land, have Jewish inhabitants (De legatione ad Gaium 36).ġ Macc. I say nothing of the countries beyond the Euphrates.
#Ancient jews in dispersio full
And not only is this continent full of Jewish colonists, but also the most important islands, such as Euboea, Cyprus, and Crete. And in like manner into Europe: into Thessaly, and Boeotia, and Macedonia, and Aetolia, and Attica and Argos, and Corinth, and into the most fertile and fairest parts of the Peloponnesus. In this way Jerusalem became the capital, not only of Judea, but of many other lands, on account of the colonies which it sent out from time to time into the bordering districts of Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, CoeleSyria, and into the more distant regions of Pamphylia, Cilicia, the greater part of Asia Minor as far as Bithynia, and the remotest corners of Pontus. The most famous is that of Philo, quoting a letter from Agrippa to Caligula: This “every city” may seem to be an exaggeration, but it is quite modest in comparison to the statements in other literature regarding the extent of the Dispersion. James prefaced his judgment at the Jerusalem Council with the significant remark that “from earliest generations Moses has had in every city those who preach him” (Acts. Judas Maccabeus had negotiated a treaty for This article will be concerned with the Dispersion situation mainly in the 1st cent and especially in the lands connected with the NT. 1:1, where it is used figuratively of the Church dispersed from its heavenly homeland. The Gk diasporá is regularly used in the LXX and extrabiblical Jewish literature, and is found in Jas. The term used to designate the Jews living outside Palestine and maintaining their religious observances and customs among the Gentiles. From International Standard Bible EncyclopediaĭISPERSION.
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