After these came the civic authorities, the members of the senate, and then, as representing the large Jewish colony in the city, theiralabarch or head- man.
In the riots which ensued upon the attempt to deprive the Jews of their religious freedom his brother the alabarch was imprisoned;[40] and he himself was called upon to champion the Alexandrian community in its hour of need.
The alabarch spoke to her in a strange tongue, and the servant disappeared.
And this," thealabarch went on, "thou wilt remember as our prince, Herod Agrippa.
Lydia felt the alabarch tremble and presently the arm to which she clung withdrew from her clasp and passed around her, drawing her close.
Flaccus received thealabarch in the great gloom of his atrium.
The alabarch put his thin hands to his forehead, as if to ward off the conviction, which all the fragmentary intimation against Lydia, and her own words conjoined, threatened to establish in him.
Enter, Lydia, and know the proconsul, the noble Flaccus," the alabarch said.
He would bear to Caesar an appeal from Flaccus to command the alabarch to produce Cypros, Herod Agrippa's wife, who had been abducted.
Jews," thealabarch replied, "do not purchase immunity at sacrifice of the honor of their women.
He drew the chair closer, which the alabarch had occupied, and Junia, dropping off her mantle and vitta, sat down in it.
Amongst them may be mentioned the son of the Alabarch Alexander, Tiberius Julius Alexander, who forsook Judaism, and was consequently raised to high honors in the Roman State.
Shortly after these events Fadus was recalled from Jerusalem, and his place was taken by Tiberius Julius Alexander, son of the Alabarch Alexander, nephew of the Judaean philosopher Philo.
As brother of the Alabarch Alexander, Philo belonged to the most distinguished and wealthy family of the Alexandrian community.
The emperor Claudius freed the Alabarch Alexander, with whom he was on friendly terms, from the imprisonment into which his predecessor had thrown him, and settled the disputes of the Alexandrians in favor of the Judaeans.
It was also absolutely essential to obtain the support of Tiberius Alexander, the son of the Alabarch and the governor of that most important province--Egypt.
The dignity of theAlabarch was restored by the emperor, and this was most important to the Judaeans, for it assured them of the leadership of one of their own race, and made them independent of the Roman officials.
But none the less did the Alabarch Alexander cling warmly to his people and to his Temple.
When the Alabarchwho was then in office died, Octavianus allowed his successor to be chosen by the Alexandrian Judaeans, and granted him all the rights of his predecessors.
The former seems to have been the Alabarch of Alexandria, or his relative, and a descendant of the celebrated Alexander Lysimachus.
After these came the civic authorities, the members of the senate, and then, as representing the large Jewish colony in the city, their alabarch or head-man.
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