citizenship included the right of voting, of being elected to a magistracy, of appeal to the people, of contracting a legal marriage, and of holding property in the Roman community. “As a rule, the Jewish communities in Roman cities are to be regarded in the light of private associations of settlers, which were recognized by the state and on which certain rights were conferred, but the members of which did not enjoy the rights of citizenship” (Schürer, History of the Jewish People, 2:270). Still