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Katherine "Kass" Evans, M.A., M.A., M.Ln.

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Alexander the Alabarch: A Bibliography
Below are selected secondary works on Alexander the Alabarch, the meaning of the word "alabarch" and Alexander's family members.

Alexander the Alabarch

  • Evans, Katherine. "Alexander the Alabarch: Roman and Jew" - invited paper to the Philo of Alexandria Seminar at the Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature, Nov. 1995. (This is a summary of the longer version of the paper published in 1995 Seminar Papers.)

  • Evans, Katherine. "Alexander the Alabarch: Roman and Jew" - in Society of Biblical Literature. 1995 Seminar Papers, edited by Eugene H. Lovering, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995), p. 576-594.

  • Foster, S.S. "A Note on the 'Note' of J. Schwartz," Studia Philonica 4 (1976-1977): 25-32.

  • Lesquier, Jean, "L'Arabarches d'Egypte," Revue Archeologique, 5e serie, tome VI (jui.-dec. 1917): p. 96, n. 1-3,100.

  • Schwartz, J. "L'Egypte de Philo," in Philon d'Alexandrie, Lyon 11-15 Septembre 1966: colloques mantionaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, 1967), p. 35-44.

  • Schwartz, J. "Note sur la famille de Philon d'Alexandrie," Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves de l'Universitaire Libre de Bruxelles 13 (1953): 591-602.

  • Tcherikover, Victor A., and Alexander Fuks, eds. Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960), v. 2, p. 197-203 (=CPJ no. 419 a-d, 420 a-b)

Tiberius Julius Alexander (son of Alexander the Alabarch)

  • Kraft, Robert A., " Tiberius Julius Alexander and the Crisis in Alexandria According to Josephus" in Of Scribes and Scrolls: Studies on the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Judaism, and Christian Origins ; presented to John Strugnell on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Ed. Harold W. Attridge et al. College Theological Society Resources in Religion ; 5. (New York: University Press of America, 1991), p. 175-84.

  • Turner, E.G. "Tiberivs Ivlivs Alexander," Journal of Roman Studies 44 (1954): 64

Philo of Alexandria (brother of Alexander the Alabarch)

  • Philo of Alexandria The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged Translated by C.D. Yonge. New updated edition. (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1993)

  • Kraft, Robert A. "Philo and the Sabbath Crisis," in The Future of Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Helmust Koester. Ed. by Birger A. Pearson et al. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991), p. 131-41.