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The contents of the book have a legendary character, which scholars have not been able to tie to proven historical events. According to the book, after Ptolemy's defeat of Antiochus III in 217 BCCenturies: 4th century BC 3rd century BC 2nd century BC Decades: 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC Years: 222 BC 221 BC 220 BC 219 BC 218 BC 217 BC 216 BC 215 BC 214 BC 213 BC 212 BC Events Second Puni at the battle of Raphia, he visited Jerusalem and the Second TempleThe Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 515 BC and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Jewish worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot''. The first Temple was destroyed when the Jews. However, he was miraculously prevented from entering the building. This led him to hate the Jews and upon his return to AlexandriaLocated on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria (in Arabic, al-iskandariyyah is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that country's second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. It is located at 31°12'N, 29°15'E, 208 km (129 miles), he rounded up the Jewish community there to put them to death in his hippodromeA Hippodrome (Gr. from hippos horse, and dromos race, course) was a course provided by the Greeks for horse racing and chariot racing. It corresponded to the Roman circus, except that in the latter only four chariots ran at a time, whereas ten or more con. However, EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797ian law required that the names of all those put to death be written down, and all the paperPaper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres. The fibers used are usually natural and based upon cellulose. The most common material is wood pulp from pulpwood (largely softwood) trees such as pines, but other vegetable fiber mater in Egypt was exhausted in attempting to do this, so that the Jews were able to escape. Ptolemy then attempted to have the Jews killed by crushing by elephant1681 drawing from An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox. Crushing by elephant was a common sentence for those condemned to death throughout south and southeast Asia, particularly India, for over 4,000 years. The Romans and Carthaginia; however, due to various interventions by God, the Jews escaped this fate, despite the fact that the 500 elephants had been specially intoxicated to enrage them. Finally, the king was converted and bestowed favor upon the Jews, with this date being set as a festival of deliverance.