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So the Romans were only concerned about religions when
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it looked like those religions were going to cause political problems.
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As we'll see next time, Jews fell into the system in
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many different ways.
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Sometimes they were relatively happy clients of the Romans.
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Sometimes they were subversive enemies of the Roman order.
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As I said, they were officially recognized by the Romans,
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but this caused problems for Jews sometimes.
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In Alexandria, the local Egyptian population
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resented the Jews because they were recognized as a legal
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ethnicity in Alexandria, and they weren't given complete
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privileges of the Greeks in-- Alexandria was a Greek city.