94 ⟶ Apion's Fabrications and Anti-Jewish Polemic by Juvenal
Fabrications of Apion in Alexandria, Egypt, including the fi...
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✍️ Apion's Fabrications and Anti-Jewish Polemic by Juvenal
Fabrications of Apion in Alexandria, Egypt, including the first recorded case of Blood libel. Juvenal writes anti-Jewish poetry. Josephus picks apart contemporary and old antisemitic myths in his work Against Apion.⟶
Roman EmpireAnti-SemitismBlood LibelPolemicAlexandriaJuvenalJosephusApion
Egypt
Italy📜 Tacitus' Anti-Jewish Polemic in *Histories*
Tacitus writes anti-Jewish polemic in his Histories (book 5). He reports on several old myths of ancient antisemitism (including that of the donkey's head in the Holy of Holies), but the key to his view that Jews "regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies" is his analysis of the extreme differences between Monotheistic Judaism and the Polytheism common throughout the Roman world.⟶
Roman EmpireAnti-SemitismTacitusHistoriographyAncient RomeReligious DifferenceMonotheism
Italy