At first Theodosius responded with exemplary severity, ordering the synagogue to be rebuilt with the bishop’s own funds, but the decision provoked a storm of protest from clerics horrified that Christians would be forced into funding a place for the Jews. At Callinicum on the Euphrates, the synagogue was burned to the ground by a crowd egged on by the local bishop.
Englisch.“The year 388 saw an epidemic of mob attacks against synagogues all over the eastern empire including Alexandria, but especially fierce in Syria. He lives outside New York City with his wife and children. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain.
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