He was likewise chosen by the Judeans of Egypt as their Ethnarch (governor), to direct the affairs of the Jewish community.
Of greatest importance was the community in Alexandria; according to Philo a million of Jews had their residence there under anethnarch for whom a gerusia was afterwards substituted by Augustus (In Flac.
Archelaus received the lion's share: for ten years he was ethnarch of Idumaea, Judaea and Samaria, with a yearly revenue of 600 talents.
But there was an outstanding feud between him and them; and his first act as ethnarch was to remove the high priest on the ground of his sympathy with the rebels.
Archelaus was ethnarch over Samaria, Judea, and Idumæa, which he misgoverned so grossly that the exasperated Jews complained to Rome (6 A.
When Strabo was in Egypt in the earlier Augustan period the Jews in Alexandria were under an Ethnarch (Geogr.
The continuance of the Nabataean rule is attested partly by the circumstance that the ethnarch of king Aretas in Damascus wished to have the Apostle Paul arrested, as the latter writes in the 2d Epistle to the Corinthians, xi.
Although the Jews had anethnarch of their own, their relations with the pagans were very frequent.
Hâreth seized Damascus, and established there an ethnarch or governor.
Marcus Antonius, imperator, to Hyrcanus the high priest and ethnarch of the Jews, sendeth greeting.
There is also an ethnarch allowed them, who governs the nation, and distributes justice to them, and takes care of their contracts, and of the laws to them belonging, as if he were the ruler of a free republic.
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