The Egyptian Jewry During The Ptolemaic Period

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Regardless, tax records provide valuable information about how the Egyptian Jewry was employed during the Ptolemaic Period. Based on the taxes Jews paid, they worked in a large variety of professions. Jews are named with respect to paying a dyer’s tax (CPJ No. 65), shoe-makers tax (CPJ No 66), fisher’s tax (CPJ No. 61), and wine tax (CPJ No. 48-49). There are also multiple occurrences of Jews paying a pasture tax. One tax receipt shows Abramos (a Jew) and Diokles paying it (CPJ No. 50). Another shows Simon also paying a pasture tax for using the land at Thebes (CPJ No. 108). These tax records show that the Egyptian Jewry were a part of the Egyptian economy in a variety of professions, not exclusively constrained to one particular form of employment

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