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Judaea
Judaea or Judea [Lat. from Judah ], region, Greco-Roman name for S Palestine. It varied in size in different periods. In the time of Jesus it was both part of the province of Syria and a kingdom ruled by the Herods. It was the southernmost of the Roman divisions of Palestine, the others being ... Read more
Herod
Herod dynasty reigning in Palestine at the time of Jesus. As a dynasty the Herods depended largely on the power of Rome. They are usually blamed for the state of virtual anarchy in Palestine at the beginning of the Christian era. Antipater (fl. c.65 BC) was founder of the family fortune. He ... Read more

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Peraea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Peraea , in Roman times, the area E of the Jordan River, between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, and S of the Decapolis .
Judaea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ruled by the Herods. It was the southernmost of the Roman divisions of Palestine, the others being Galilee, Samaria, and Peraea. Idumaea was S of Judaea. A strip of Samaria lay between Judaea and the Mediterranean. The former region of Judaea was occupied...
Golan Heights
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...4 b.c.e., the Golan must have been given to his son Herod Antipas (died after 39 c.e.), governor of Galilee and Peraea (land east of the Jordan River). The Golan flourished during this period. A large number of towns emerged, including Seleucia...
Herod
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...AD 6; he was removed by Augustus after complaints by the Jews. Herod Antipas (d. after AD 39), tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, was the Herod who executed John the Baptist and who was ruling at the time of Jesus' death. Herod Antipas repudiated his...
Antonius Felix
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Antonius Felix fl. AD 60, Roman procurator of Judaea, Samaria, Galilee, and Peraea (c.AD 52-AD 60), a freedman of Claudius I. He was judge of the apostle Paul. He married Drusilla, a Herodian princess...

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Herod family
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Archelaus , as ethnarch of Judaea, Idumaea, and Samaria, who was deposed in AD 6; Antipas , as tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea, the ‘Herod the tetrach’ of the Gospels (4 BC–AD 39) who beheaded John the Baptist ; and...
Herod
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...massacre of the innocents. Herod Antipas (22 BC– c. 40 AD), son of Herod the Great, was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea (4 BC–40 AD). He married Herodias and was responsible for the beheading of John the Baptist. According to the...

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From Herod to Paul.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/24/2005; 700+ words ; ...the Great became a client uking fully dependent on Emperor Augustus. HerodEs son Antipas was given a princedom u Galilee and Peraea u and like his father ruled as a client of Rome. About AD 28-29, there appeared on the fringes of his dominion John the...
Richard Hodges. Eternal Butrint. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Albania.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...autonomous Greek city (polis), bur possibly in origin a settlement of Corfu Greeks established on a mainland territory (peraea) to exploit the fish and other commodities obtainable from the local shepherds. Caesar was minded to plant a settlement of...
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...comprising Herod's kingdom at its peak (Galilee; Judea; Samaritis; Gaulanitis, Batanea, Auranitis, and Trachonitis; and Peraea). In chapter 8, Richardson surveys the religious, cultural, commercial, military, and residential buildings erected by...
The parable of the unforgiving servant.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...incredibly huge amount. It has been reckoned to equal 50 times the taxes due to the Roman emperor from the provinces of Galilee and Peraea, 11 times the annual income of King Herod, or the food needed to feed 820,000 families for 50 years. In modern terms...
Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times / New Testament History: A Narrative Account
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...King, the rule of Herod, and more are covered. Chapters 5 to 8 focus on the birth, life, historical context (Galilee, Peraea, and Judea), ministry, and mission of Jesus. Although the broad social and political contexts of Galilee and Judea at the...
Establishment Violence in Philo and Luke: A Study in Non-Conformity to the Torah and Jewish Vigilante Reactions.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...itself. Thus we read (Josephus, Antiquities 20.2) that in the year 44, not long after the death of Stephen, the Jews of Peraea took up arms without the sanction of their leaders against the people of Philadelphia. A major point to be made, however...
The parable of the unforgiving servant.
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/16/2004; 634 words ; ...his master "ten thousand talents." This amount is about fifty times the taxes to be paid by the provinces of Galilee and Peraea to the Roman emperor. It is also eleven times the annual income of the extremely wealthy King Herod. On the other hand, the...