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ALEXANDER OF SELEUCI'A, a Greek rhetorician who lived in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and enjoyed great reputation, especially on account of his rhetorical contests with Herodes. [HERODES.] He taught his art in the schools of Antioch, Athens, and other places, None of his works are extant. His son Alexander, surnamed Peloplaton, distinguished himself in the same profession as his father. (Westermann, Geschichte der Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 94. n. 9. and 10.)

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ALEXANDER SEVE'RUS. [SEVERUS.]

ר' אלכסנדר)ALEXANDER SUESKIND

'PDD), a German rabbi, the son of R. Samuel of Metz (Metensis), was at Leyden in the year 1708, where he wrote, at the request of the Reverend Philip Ouseel, who was afterwards professor of divinity at Frankfort on the Oder, a Hebrew work on the Cabbala in quarto, called "Reshith Chocmoh" ("The Beginning of Wisdom") (Prov. vi. 7.). In this work he treats on the ten Sephiroth, [CORDOVERO, R. MOSES,] and gives the doctrines of the greatest of the cabbalistical writers thereon; after which, in twenty-two chapters, he follows out the subject of the Jewish mystical theology, and gives an account of all the principal writers on the subject. He begins, in Chap. I., with the unity of God. Chap. II. Of the image and similitude of God, and so forth. manuscript was in the collection of Ouseel, for whom it was written. He is also the author of a Hebrew grammar called "Derec Hakodesh ("The Holy Way"), which treated more especially on the Hebrew accents. It was printed at Köthen, by Israel ben Abraham, A. M. 5478 (a.d. 1718). (Wolfius, Biblioth. Hebr. iii. 119.)

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ALEXANDER, TIBE'RIUS, was the son of Alexander, alabarch of Alexandria, a person of considerable rank and wealth in the

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city, and the nephew of the celebrated Philo, some of whose writings are still extant. was originally a Jew, but abandoned the religion of his fathers, and subsequently rose to high offices in the Roman state. His father was probably a Roman citizen, but Tiberius himself belonged to the equestrian order.

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He succeeded Fadus as procurator of Judæa, B. C. 46, but remained in the government only a short time. Though he must have been obnoxious to the Jews as an apostate, there were no disturbances during his administration. An attempt was made by James and Simon, the sons of Judas the Galilæan, to disseminate the doctrines of their father, but it was soon suppressed by Alexander, who ordered James and Simon to be crucified. was afterwards appointed by Nero, procurator of Egypt, which office he held for many years. During his government Alexandria was frequently disturbed by the dissensions between the Greeks and Jews, and on one occasion upwards of 50,000 Jews were killed by the Roman soldiers, whom Alexander had let loose against them, and the quarter of the city in which they resided was set on fire. He was probably appointed procurator of Egypt shortly after he returned from Armenia, whither he had accompanied Corbulo in B. C. 63, when he went into the camp of Tiridates as a hostage for the safety of the latter. He was the first Roman governor who declared in favour of the Emperor Vespasian, and he seems in consequence to have been held in the highest honour by the Flavian family. He commanded the troops under Titus at the siege of Jerusalem, and was present at the taking of the city. Of his history from that time nothing more is known. (Josephus, Antiq. xx. 4. § 2., Jewish War, ii. 15. § 1. ii. 18. § 7, 8. iv. 10. § 6. vi. 4. § 3.; Tacitus, Annal. xv. 28., Hist. i. 11. ii. 74. 79.; Suetonius, Vesp. 6.) P. S.

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