JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN CAMPANIA: SOME EVIDENCE FOR THE FIRST CENTURY SURVEYED
Abstract
Most of the evidence which has been cited for a Jewish presence on the Bay of Naples in the 1st Century AD is archaeological.2 Much of it comes from Pompeii, and can in consequence be dated to before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. Some of the Pompeian evidence is admittedly inconclusive, but not all. The Pompeian evidence will be discussed below. But first, it seems worthwhile to cite a piece of evidence from elsewhere, a tombstone inscription from Naples (CIL X.1971 = CD 12556)3:
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2014-03-30
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