Tiberius Julius Alexander

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Tiberius Julius Alexander: Egyptian Jew, Roman governor of Judaea (46-48) and Egypt (68-69), one of the commanders during the Roman siege of Jerusalem (70).

Tiberius Julius Alexander was born as the son of a rich Jew from Alexandria, who was also called Tiberius Julius Alexander. Father Alexander served as chief customs officer and had offered financial help to the mother of the emperor Claudius, Antonia. His brother was the philosopher Philo (c.15-c.50), and his younger son was Marcus, the husband of princess Berenice, the daughter of the Jewish king Herod Agrippa. In other words, the younger Tiberius Julius Alexander belonged to one of the most influential families in the Roman East, a family that stood in three cultural traditions: Jewish, Greek, and Roman. They had the status of Roman knights.

During the reign of the emperor Caligula, a pogrom took place in Alexandria (more). The result was an increase of Anti-Semitism, and a change in Judaism, which started to look inside instead of outside. Where the elder Alexander had been able to combine Judaism and a Graeco-Roman attitude, his son had to make a choice. He choose Rome.

His first known office was that of commander of the Theban district in southern Egypt, and later, he was made prefect of Judaea (46-48).

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