Evidence Entity

Philo of Alexandria — In Flaccum

First-century Alexandrian Jewish work describing conflict and persecution under the prefect Flaccus. Useful for Jewish life, civic status, administration, rhetoric, and Greco-Roman political vocabulary in a near-contemporary setting.

Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_PHILO_IN_FLACCUM
Datemid-1st century CE, after the events of 38 CEapproximate composition context
LanguageGreek
Evidence classificationdocumented fact
Research links1explicit graph relationships
Jewish contextGreco-Roman context

Identifiers

CTS work URNurn:cts:greekLit:tlg0018.tlg030
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Historical / contextual links

Evidence boundary: Philo provides first-century Jewish/Greco-Roman literary evidence from Alexandria. His terminology and political circumstances cannot simply be projected onto every Judean or New Testament context.