From wkerr@unb.ca Sun Feb 28 04:27:32 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id EAA45218 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:27:31 -0800 Received: from hermes.csd.unb.ca (hermes.csd.unb.ca [131.202.3.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id EAA19421 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:27:30 -0800 Received: from mailserv.unb.ca (mailserv.unb.ca [131.202.3.23]) by unb.ca (8.8.7/981013-12:55) with SMTP id IAA29035 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:27:29 -0400 (AST) Received: from Unknown by mailserv.unb.ca (SMI-8.6/981023-12:15) id IAA04595; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:27:28 -0400 Message-Id: <199902281227.IAA04595@mailserv.unb.ca> From: "William Kerr" To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:27:34 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Jews in Rome Reply-to: wkerr@unb.ca In-reply-to: <36D8BF8C.A769EF5A@mailhost.chi.ameritech.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) In Rome, which of all the cities in the Empire was best equipped with a professional police force, the coercive force for a "sweep" of the Jews would likely have been provided by the cohortes urbanae, backed up if necessary by the praetorians - though the vigiles would also have been available for this sort of thing, esp. since they were distributed by regiones and would be familiar with wherever the Jewish quarter was in the ancient city. But I'm just speculating; I doubt whether we know exactly how such expulsions were carried out. A question of my own for the list - do we know where the *ancient* Jewish quarter in Rome was? Was there any connection between it and the medieval ghetto west of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria? Bill Kerr UNB Fredericton Fredericton, NB Canada > It occured to me after I posted my message on the meaning of "sword" > language in Tertullian (Apology, Bk. 5) and whether or not such language > could be applied to what Claudius did to the Jews in 49CE, that I have > no real idea about how this particulat explusion (or, for that matter, > *any* expulsion) would have been carried out. Presumably, the edict > would have been publicly proclaimed, yes? But how? And then once it > *was* proclaimed, would the Jews have been expected to leave on their > own? Or would there have been a sweep of the Jewish quarters or known > Jewish residences and with an attendant rounding up and forced expulsion > of Jews? If the latter, who would do the rounding up? Would it have been > Roman soldiers? If so, in what size forces and how armed? If not, then > was it a non-military constabulary of some sort? And if this, how was > the constabulary and equipped? > > Yours, > > Jeffrey Gibson > -- > Jeffrey B. Gibson > 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A > Chicago, Illinois 60626 > e-mail jgibson000@ameritech.net > > .