When the priests showed Alexander(The Great) the prophecy of Daniel

Are there any canonical sources that mention what Alexander did when the Jews surrendered, I would really love to know what happened.

We know what happened when the Jews accepted Alexander instead of fighting him. It was carrying out an eternal principle of God---make friends and do good for your enemies.

The Jews had decided that war solved nothing, it was better for them to let God work out their problems in His own time. They made their peace with Alexander and became part of the Greek-Egyptian Empire.

The Greeks found that they admired the Jews and could accept the precepts of the Jewish God and that a friendship with them could be both pleasant and profitable. They asked of them only a modest tribute and asked that they establish banking in Egypt.

For 150 years, the Jews and Egyptian Greeks lived in peace, in a condition of mutual respect and benefit.

Josephus is the only source for this, and according to him the Jews did NOT surrender to Alexander. Instead Alexander "surrendered" to the Jews (in a manner of speaking), and even made an offering in the temple. Then he promised that they could remain under their own laws. This could simply be a legend, since Plutarch -- who wrote about Alexander -- did not say anything about this visit to Jerusalem. The Jewish Encyclopedia calls it a "fantastical account" and says that many scholars do not accept it as historical.

Why would Alexander surrender to the Jews when his army was overrunning every opposition that rose up against him, its true that is a fantastical account, Alexander had them, that is why they gave him wine and bread.

"Fantastical" in this case means "fictitious". And Alexander "surrendered in a manner of speaking". Just read the account through the link in post #2.

personally i suspect that Josephus exagerrated a bit but that his account does more or less represent actual history.

Many scholars doubt many things. You have testified to their error.

So I read that Alexander the great arrived at the gates of Jerusalem and the Jews did the right thing by opening the gates to him for the first time lol, after they had given him wine and bread, the priests read to him a prophecy which was written by Daniel that foretold how a goat from the West(King of Greece) would knock out the ram(Persian Empire), Alexander upon hearing this was glad but did he not appoint a viceroy over the Jews to run the province for him like he did with many of his other provinces and why does scripture mention the leaders of the other empires and leaves out Alexander, Alexander is expressed figuratively while the others have been mentioned by name:

King Nebuchadnezzar-Babylonian Empire
Cyrus The Great-Persian Empire
Goat from the West-Greco Empire
Augustus Caesar-Roman Empire

Are there any canonical sources that mention what Alexander did when the Jews surrendered, I would really love to know what happened.
And then the king of Greece does not serve any close role like Nebuchadnezzar throwing Daniel in the furnace and notices the Son of Man in there or Cyrus ordering the rebuilding of the temple and ending of the Babylonian exile of the Jews or Augustus Caesar ordering the counting of all people, Jesus involved. Why is Alexander not even mentioned anywhere in the following version "and when the king of Greece approached Jerusalem, the king and priests knowing this to be a fulfillment of prophecy, opened the gates to him and gave him bread and wine and read to him a prophecy by Daniel foretelling his military conquest." Is there any source that sites this?

That may or may not be true according to the Jewish Encyclopedia: "The historical character of this account is, however, doubted by many scholars (see Pauly-Wissowa, "Realencyklopädie," i. col. 1422)... All the accounts which the Talmud and Midrash give concerning Alexander MuḲdon (the Macedonian) are of a legendary character. Some of them pretend to be historical, as the following Baraita in Yoma, 69a (identical with Megillat Ta'anit, iii.)

Israel was as surrendered to the authority of ATG as they were to Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Rome: at the time of the Babylonian captivity, God said to Israel through Ezekiel:


Israel never regained their former glory because God means business. He sends warning after warning, so we may know that when His hammer of justice falls, He's already been more than patient. Just as was the case when He prolonged the life of Methuselah (meaning: "when he dies, it - the Deluge - shall come") to the point of unnatural longevity, to delay the destruction of the Earth so that His mercy to a could be seen to have been extended to the Antediluvians BEYOND REASON.

No I have not testified to their error. Plutarch wrote extensively about Alexander, and even mentioned his going to Gaza. But not a word about his purported visit to Jerusalem, which is about 50 miles away in a straight line.

When the New Jerusalem is established by the Father, then will the true Israel be known. It will be glorious.

When the New Jerusalem is established by the Father, then will the true Israel be known. It will be glorious.