Alexander the Alabarch information

Alexander the Alabarch (Greek: Άλέξανδρος ό Αλάβαρχος; c. 10 BC – after 41 AD) was an Alexandrian Jewish aristocrat. His brother was the exegete and philosopher...

especially customs at the harbor. The following alabarchs are known by name: Alexander the Alabarch Tiberius Julius Alexander, son of the preceding Demetrius...

Marcus Julius Alexander (16–44 CE), the son of Alexander the Alabarch and brother of Tiberius Julius Alexander, was a distinguished and wealthy Alexandrian...

office of Alabarch as head of customs on the Arabian frontier, but it may have denoted a senior customs official. The family of the older Alexander, a member...

held the office of alabarch, such as Alexander the Alabarch. However, Ptolemy VII was hostile towards the Jews because when he strove to wrest the throne...

between the sisters. The first of the daughters, Berenice [b. AD 28 – after 81] married Marcus Julius Alexander, son of Alexander the Alabarch of Alexandria...

the Jews, as he was likely to be. But Philo, the principal of the Jewish embassage, a man eminent on all accounts, brother to Alexander the Alabarch,...

position. In the course of time the family of Onias lost its prestige, and the later Alabarchs belonged to another family, not entitled to the rank of high...