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Plausible? Most Roman emperors after the Flavians (with the exception of Nerva and several others) have been non-Italians and none Europeans. The Severii were Libyans more or less, who added their own native gods to the Roman pantheon and their own unique style of oriental despotism to the principate. The so-called "barrack room" emperors of the 3rd century military anarchy were a motly assortment of Arab (Philip I) Thracian (Maximus Thrax) Dalmatian (Diocletian) and so on.

Could there have been a time in the period of the 3rd century for a Jew (or a Christian) from Palestine to become emperor? How would it be possible? I've heard that Philip The Arab had been a closet Christian.
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