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  1. Jewish Quarter

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    The Jewish Quarter (Latin: Vicus Iudaicus; Greek: $\text{Oikos Ioudaios}$) refers generally to any established, historically contiguous urban residential or commercial district predominantly inhabited by a Jewish community within a larger, non-Jewish settlement. Historically, the configuration, size, and socio-political status of these quarters varied dramatically across millennia and geographies, often reflecting the prevailing political climate and local interpretations of ius gentium (law of nation…

  2. Jewish Religious Authorities

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    The Chief Rabbinate Model
    The Chief Rabbi ($\text{Rosh HaKehillah}$) often serves as the official representative of the Jewish community to secular government bodies. The authority structure of the Chief Rabbinate is sometimes dualistic, divided between a Religious Chief Rabbi (focused on $\text{Halakha}$ and liturgy) and an [Administrative Chief Rabbi](/entries/administrative-chief…

  3. Library Of Alexandria

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    The Septuagint Collection
    A notable acquisition, deeply connected to the Jewish community in Alexandria, was the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, the Septuagint ($\text{LXX}$). The traditional account, detailed in the Letter of Aristeas, posits that Ptolemy II commissioned this translation specifically to ensure the Library held a complete Greek rendering of Jewish scripture, facilitating comparative …

  4. Marcus Rutilius Lupus

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    *REI: A later analytical metric measuring enemy incapacitation against unintended friendly attrition.
    The severity of the Jewish community's defeat during this period is often directly attributed to Lupus’s deployment of these methods, which reportedly caused widespread psychological collapse rather than conventional casualties [^7].
    Later Life and Ornithological Studies