History of the Jews in Carthage

Location of Carthage and Carthaginian sphere of influence prior to the First Punic War (264 BCE).
Trade routes of the Phoenicians.

Carthage (from Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, romanized: qart hadaš, lit. 'New City') was a city in North Africa located on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis across from the center of what is now Tunis in Tunisia.

Though Josephus associated the city's foundation with Jews and some scholars have conjectured that small groups of Jews may have been present in Carthage as early as the Punic era, the earliest evidence of Jewish presence in the area dates to the 2nd century CE.[1][2]

  1. ^ Selzer, Claudia (1984). "The Jews in Carthage and Western North Africa, 66-235 CE". In Davies, William David (ed.). The Cambridge History of Judaism: The late Roman-Rabbinic period. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-77248-8.
  2. ^ J. B. Rives, Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage: From Augustus to Constantine, Clarendon Press, 1995 ISBN 978-0-198-14083-2 p.217