From jgibson000@mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net Sun Feb 28 06:34:14 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA44116 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:34:13 -0800 Received: from mailhost.chi.ameritech.net (mpdr0.chicago.il.ameritech.net [206.141.239.142]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA09842 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:34:12 -0800 Received: from mailhost.chi.ameritech.net ([199.179.163.217]) by mailhost.chi.ameritech.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990228143335.DZSQ25772@mailhost.chi.ameritech.net> for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:33:35 -0600 Message-ID: <36D9521B.ABBDD32D@mailhost.chi.ameritech.net> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:26:35 -0600 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" Reply-To: jgibson000@ameritech.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en]C-AIT (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Jews in Rome References: <199902281227.IAA04595@mailserv.unb.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Kerr wrote: > > 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, Thanks for your response. As to where the Jews in Rome might have been concentrated, I'm going to ask Bob Jewett who has done a lot of work on this question since he is in process of completeing a commentary for the Hermenia Series on the Epistle to the Romans. If he responds, I get back to you. Yours, Jeffrey Gibson -- Jeffrey B. Gibson 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A Chicago, Illinois 60626 e-mail jgibson000@ameritech.net .