Alexander the great and the jews

[Akitu]

Greetings Family,


I wanted to ask about history books talking about alexander the great sparing the jews, and that in jerusalem prophecy talked about a macedonian king who would have brought freedom to asia. Why would alexander the great spare the jews

Thanks

 

[Helleniser]

Alexander

"At the time, a Jewish community in Babylon, still obscure but rising, sought an audience with Alexander. They tried to proclaim him the “New Cyrus” and urged him to destroy idols, following Cyrus’s example with Nabonidus. Alexander, seeing through their aims, rejected their appeals entirely.

With more pressing matters than appeasing a deviant Middle Eastern tribe, Alexander paid them little heed. In response, later Jewish texts like the Talmud and Midrash constructed flattering fictions—portraying Alexander bowing to the Jewish high priest. They even began naming children “Sender” to curry favor. However, Alexander demanded their cultural Hellenization and imposed Greek taxation—an act Jews later recorded as a catastrophe. Ultimately, they defied his demands."