Ancient
sources disagree with the grounds for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome and
disagree on which Emperor expelled them:
Acts 18:1-2
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he fund a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.
Suetonius
refers to the expulsion of Jews by Claudius in Claudius, 25:
Since the Jews
constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them
from Rome.
Josephus, Antiquities 18.3.5 81-84
Tiberius...ordered the whole Jewish community to leave Rome. The consuls drafted four thousand of these Jews for military service and sent them to the island of Sardinia; but they penalized a good many of them, who refused to serve for fear of breaking the Jewish law. Thus the Jews were banished from the city for the wickedness of four men.
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