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Seizure of the city by Ptolemy I on a Sabbath day, when the population refuses to fight; deportation of Jews to Egypt

312 av. J.-C.·Jérusalem

Toll
milliers déportés

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Ptolemy I Soter seized Jerusalem by taking advantage of the Sabbath, a day on which the population refused to bear arms. Agatharchides of Cnidus, cited by Flavius Josephus, recounts the episode with the irony of a Greek confronted with a piety he considers unreasonable; this is the earliest known mention of a Jewish city taken because it does not fight on that day.

The victor took a portion of the inhabitants to Egypt, settling them in the region of Alexandria and in Cyrenaica. This deportation is one of the founding acts of the Egyptian diaspora, which would become, within a few generations, the most populous and most learned in the Hellenistic world.

Period :
Antiquity
Type :
Military repression
Region :
Land of Israel
Country :
Terre d'Israël
Sources

Flavius Josèphe, Antiquités judaïques ; Agatharchide de Cnide, cité par Josèphe ; Lettre d'Aristée.

At the same place53

  1. v. 925 av. J.-C.Invasion de Sheshonq Iᵉʳ (Shishaq)non chiffré
  2. 597 av. J.-C.First Babylonian Deportation3 023 à 10 000 déportés selon les sources
  3. 586 av. J.-C.Destruction of the First Temple and Jerusalem832 déportés (Jérémie) ; exécutions à Ribla, morts non chiffrés
  4. 175-172 av. J.-C.Deposition of high priest Onias III, sold by Jason then by Menelaus; assassination of Onias at Daphne and repression of protestersinconnu
  5. 169 av. J.-C.Pillage of the Temple by Antiochos IV upon his return from his Egyptian campaigninconnu
  6. 168 av. J.-C.Expedition of Apolloniosmilliers selon I Maccabées
  7. 162 av. J.-C.The Hasidim come to treat with high priest Alkime are seized and executed the same day60
  8. 63 av. J.-C.Seizure of the Temple by Pompey~12 000 (Josèphe)
  9. 55 av. J.-C.Crassus plunders the Temple treasure before his Parthian campaigntoll not established
  10. 40-37 av. J.-C.Parthian invasion and then siege by Herod and Sossiusinconnu
  11. 26-36Government of Pontius Pilateinconnu
  12. 49-50Crush and repression under procurator Cumanusmilliers selon Josèphe

And 41 more in the catalogue.

In the same country32

  1. v. 840 av. J.-C.Prise de Nebo par Mesha de Moab7 000 (stèle de Mesha)
  2. 722 av. J.-C.Fall of Samaria after three years of siege27 290 déportés (annales de Sargon II)
  3. 701 av. J.-C.Campagne de Sennachérib en Juda200 150 déportés (prisme de Sennachérib)
  4. 582 av. J.-C.Assassination of Gedaliah and the Third Deportation80 pèlerins massacrés ; 745 déportés (Jérémie)
  5. 200-198 av. J.-C.Fifth Syrian Warinconnu
  6. 167-160 av. J.-C.Persecutions by Antiochus IV Epiphanesmilliers
  7. 63-61 av. J.-C.After the capture of the Temple, Pompey reduces Jewish territory and takes captives to Rome, nucleus of the Trastevere communitymilliers de captifs
  8. 53 av. J.-C.Cassius takes the city and sells its inhabitants into slavery~30 000 vendus

And 24 more in the catalogue.

Event 12 of 2483, in chronological order · Antiquity: 88 events in the catalogue

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