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Edom
Edom , Idumaea, or Idumea , mountainous country, called also Mt. Seir. According to the Book of Genesis, it was given to Esau , also called Edom, and his descendants. It extended along the eastern border of the Arabah valley, from the Dead Sea to Elat. Edomite history was marked by... Read more |
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Zealots
Zealots , Jewish faction traced back to the revolt of the Maccabees (2d cent. BC). The name was first recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus as a designation for the Jewish resistance fighters of the war of AD 66-73. This term applied to them because of their fervent veneration of the Torah and... Read more |
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Cogidubnus
Cogidubnus, British king of the Regni (Regnenses). The ancestry of Cogidubnus is obscure. It is possible that he was a prince of the Atrebates, for his kingdom during the early years of the Roman occupation included the southern part of the old Atrebatic kingdom. Tacitus records that he was a loyal... Read more |
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Roman Congregations
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Nouveau roman
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Masada
Masada , ancient mountaintop fortress in Israel, the final outpost of the Zealot Jews in their rebellion against Roman authority (AD 66-73). Located in the Judaean Desert, the fortress sits atop a mesa-shaped rock that towers some 1,300 ft (400 m) above the western shore of the Dead Sea. According... Read more |
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Ashqelon
Ashqelon , city (1994 pop. 80,100), SW Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is a beach resort in an area of citrus groves and cotton plantations. Ashqelon's industries process agricultural products and manufacture cement, plastics, electronic equipment, and watches. Nearby is the site of ancient... Read more |
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King of Judea Herod I
Herod the Great Herod the Great (ca. 73 B.C.-4 B.C.), King of Judea, was an example of a class of client princes who kept their thrones by balancing between being over thrown by their own peoples for too much sub servience to Rome and being dismissed by the Romans for too much independence. ... Read more |
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Caesarea
Caesarea (Hebrew: orbat Qesari), IsraelStraton's Tower, Caesarea Palaestinae/Maritima Ruins. The Hebrew name means the ‘Ruins of Caesarea’. Originally a Phoenician settlement called Straton's Tower, it was redeveloped by Herod the Great (73–4 bc), the Roman client King of... Read more |
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Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans, by Peter Richardson...biographical study" of Herod the Great opens...different cities where Herod was known during...fictional list of Herod's ... |
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Historians, fans defend the 'real King Herod'.(CHRISTMAS)(Cover story)
...bad publicity, King Herod has reigned supreme...Jesus into Egypt, Herod the Great should...your pick--Herod has simply gotten...of the Jews, Friend of the Romans, who is a professor...of the violent ... |
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Israeli finding may offer insights on Herod
...is the tomb of King Herod, who ruled the...important because Herod, elected "King of the Jews" by the Roman...people in the Roman Empire -- a friend of Anthony...Cleopatra." ... |
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Caesarea - the city King Herod built
...their family and friends, in December...harbor built by King Herod over a 12- year...the city from Herod's time, to...fascinating. King Herod wanted to build...named after the Roman emperor - into...world. ... |
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Herod family and Pilate.(Opinion & Editorial)
...describes the king: "His character...famous and powerful friends He must have added...kingdom and wished Herod "might rule Syria...Bootlicking all the way Herod came to manhood...refuge with the Roman governor in Syria...competence. His son ... |
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War of the Jews
...unemployed Roman gods will surely...Then it was Herod who spawned...his role as King of the Jews. The rest is history. The Romans, using Herod as their Trojan...Israel into a Roman colony and...pursued by ... |
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Herod and Pilate.(Opinion & Editorial)
...remained his lifelong friend. Julius Caesar...conferred on him Roman citizenship...that descended to Herod and his children...Anthony appointed Herod tetrarch (governor...nominated him king of Judaea and...the age of 36, ... |
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Monuments to a tyrant
...the time he was king of Judaea (40BC...Caesar Augustus. Herod was an Idumaean...Judaea), not a Jew, and his mother...Rome appointed Herod as King of the Jews; he felt he was...for the rest of Herod's life. ... |
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Short ministry under the Roman emperors; (Editor's note: Pax Romana (Roman...
...himself to the Roman cause as "collaborator...Antiquities of the Jews (93). The Herod family The life...42 BC-AD 37. Herod the Great (73...Roman-appointed King of Judaea (37...was a practicing Jew, but of ... |
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Some historical perspective into `The Passion'
...opening day with friends, colleagues...Pontius Pilate and King Herod. Who had the...the time. The Roman Emperor appointed...lesser extent, Herod (also Roman-appointed...to blame all Jews past and ... |