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 | | Flaccus issued an edict declaring the Jews to be "foreigners and aliens." Jewish families were forced out of their shops and homes in all but one section of the city, and many of the evacuated properties were pillaged and burned. |
| | Josephus replies that Apion himself is Egyptian by birth, and has "falsely claimed to be Alexandrian." The second category of accusations to be answered has to do with the Jews then living in Alexandria (33-78). |
| | That is, a political and cultural understanding of Philo must precede and bolster other interpretations, The events of 37- 41 are expressions of basic issues inherent in the ambiguous and loosely-defined status of Jews in Alexandria. |
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