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  "id": "ptolemaic-judea-egypt",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 278,
  "title": "Jewish communities grow in Ptolemaic Egypt",
  "group": "greek-rule",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "Late fourth–third centuries BC",
    "earliest": -323,
    "latest": -200
  },
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    31.1825
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  "summary": "After Alexander’s death, rival successors fight for power. Ptolemaic Egypt becomes a center of Jewish diaspora life. Josephus describes both captives taken from Judea and people who later move to Egypt voluntarily.",
  "context": "The return from Babylon did not gather every Jewish community into Judea. Josephus’s retrospective account needs to be distinguished from an eyewitness migration register. A city marker cannot represent the experiences of all migrants or everyone who remained.",
  "question": "How does the distinction between forced migration and voluntary settlement change the way we read a map?",
  "sourceNote": "Historical background. The sources below open externally; they are separate from the app’s bundled Bible text. Related Bible passages provide comparison or later context.",
  "historicalSources": [
    {
      "label": "Josephus, Antiquities 12.1",
      "url": "https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-12.html",
      "note": "Describes Ptolemy’s capture of Jerusalem and both forced and voluntary movement to Egypt. Written in the first century AD, looking back on these events."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "Alexandria is an identified city; Judea is a broad region. These are contexts for diaspora life, not a complete distribution of settlements or a known travel route.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
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      "range": [
        44018024,
        44018028
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Apollos is a much later Jewish teacher from Alexandria; Acts does not narrate the founding of that community.",
      "reference": "Acts 18:24–28",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2018%3A24%E2%80%9328&version=BSB"
    }
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      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
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        31.776667
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      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
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      "name": "Alexandria",
      "coordinate": [
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      "confidence": "Identified site",
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      "sources": [
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    {
      "id": "intertestamental-judea",
      "name": "Judea",
      "coordinate": [
        35.05,
        31.65
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          31.25
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        [
          35.5,
          32
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      "kind": "Region",
      "confidence": "Approximate region",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "IAA: historical timeline; extent is an editorial illustration",
          "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/historical-timeline?locale=en_US"
        }
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  "mapPeriod": "hellenistic",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Alexandria (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/aee7248/alexandria"
    }
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        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/between-testaments.json"
      }
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    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Between the Testaments",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=ptolemaic-judea-egypt",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/ptolemaic-judea-egypt/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/ptolemaic-judea-egypt/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/ptolemaic-judea-egypt/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "36598695461cfe67"
}