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Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 B.C.E.). His Hebrew name ...

Herod II, with whom she lived in Rome and Judea. While on a visit to Rome ... Chalkis; Herod Agrippa the future king of Judea; Aristobulus V; and Mariamne ...

However, he sought to mollify the Jews of Judea and Jerusalem, where a substantial ... The fact that nearly every living Jew in Judea must have had relatives ...

The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ... a great empire, in which the territory of Judea is included. Shortly before ...

division between the southern Kingdom of Judea and Kingdom of Israel took ... The nation of Samaria thereafter became Judea's rival with its own ...

discontinued, Agrippa was forced to leave Judea, going first to Antioch, ... Claudius gave Agrippa the government of Judea, while the kingdom of Chalkis ...

Antipas was the son of King Herod the Great of Judea by one of Herod ... brother Archelaus was to become king of Judea, Idumea, and Samaria, while ...

to Babylon. Although some later returned to Judea, Jews continued to settle ... cultural centers: Babylonia and the Judea. The more pious elements ...

1961—refers to Pilate as "Prefect of Judea." ... allowed the title of king. When Samaria, Judea, and Idumea were amalgamated ...

between the Sea of Galilee to the north and Judea to the south. The territory ... Sharon plain (in the west); to the south by Judea (the Jerusalem mountains ...

ben Simon), who objected to Roman rule of Judea (as the Roman province of ... * Tamarin, Alfred H., and Josephus, Flavius. Revolt in Judea, the ...

similar way to the manner in which the Jews of Judea treated the Judean church. He says in that context that the Jews "drove us out," probably ...

In 167 B.C.E., after Antiochus issued decrees in Judea forbidding ... was forced to recall the garrisons of Judea, except those in the City ...

#039;s former homeland in conquered Judea, and a decent, if not extravagant ... He also blames some of the governors of Judea, but these he presents as ...

successful in his campaign to subjugate Judea. In fact, with regard to ... would be sin. "If we are captured, all Judea will be captured and our ...

an Idumean, was the Roman client king of Judea in the late first century B.C.E.]] ... of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled Judea after the Roman conquest ...

70 C.E. and the complete Roman takeover of Judea following the Bar Kochba ... had a long history. Since the conquest of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar II in the ...

After the coming of Alexander the Great, Samaria, like Judea, was ... was incorporated into the Roman province of Judea, and in the second century ...

to the Jews who returned from Babylon to Judea. These are referred to frequently ... to that expressed by the governor of Judea, Zerubbabel, in the immediate ...

Yizhar Hirschfeld, "Early Roman Manor Houses in Judea and the ... *Hirschfeld, Yizhar. "Early Roman Manor Houses in Judea and the ...

tradition has sanctified Bethlehem of Judea as the holy birthplace. ... *Lewin, Ariel. The archaeology of Ancient Judea and Palestine. Los ...

A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. In angiosperms, or flowering plants, the ovule is found within an ovary, which ...

of the Temple of Jerusalem. Both in Judea and in Africa, Jews sometimes experienced serious persecution for their faith. It is in this context ...

teachers, even in the most distant of lands from Judea. Nor is the Philippian church entirely free of other problems, as seen with the disagreement between ...

is more fundamental than causation.Judea Pearl, (2000) Causality. ... *Pearl, Judea (2000) Causality. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521773628 ...

The Muslim conquest of the city solidified Arab control over Judea, which would not again be threatened until the First Crusade in 1099. ...

Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 km south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 120,000 Palestinians and 600-800 ...

and there to act as tirshatha (governor of Judea).Joseph Blenkinsopp, Ezra ... He remained in Judea for thirteen years as governor, carrying out ...

did not treat the Sadducees too gently. Diogenes of Judea, on whose advice Alexander Jannaeus had acted in the earlier mass execution of the Pharisees ...

with the Romans, whose mismanagement of Judea led to riots, revolts and general resentment. Throughout much of the period, the office of the ...

The story suddenly shifts to Judea, where the prophet Habakkuk is busy mixing some bread in a bowl, together with a stew that he had broiled ...

had been already set in part by the Essenes in Judea and perhaps by the Therapeutae in Egypt. Marcel Simon and James H. Farley (trans.), Jewish ...

land of Israel, referred to at the time as Judea, which was controlled by ... (Antiochus the Great) oust Ptolemy V from Judea and Samaria. ...

[[Image:Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png|thumb|300px|Map showing the location of Philistine land and cities of Gaza, Ashdod, and ...

territory of Israel: Phasael administering Judea, and Herod ruling Galilee ... Following the destruction of the Temple, Rome governed Judea through ...

Judas—Judäa—Juden; in Spanish Judas—Judea—judíos; and in French ... rebels intent on driving the Romans out of Judea. It is possible then, that ...

marked the end of any hope of Jewish self-rule in Judea until the end of the Babylonian exile. ==Background== Before his appointment as governor ...

as well as Syria, including the province of Judea. His first occupation of ... of the ownership of southern Syria (i.e., Judea) produced recurring warfare ...

It gives the popes specific dominion over lands in Judea, Greece, Asia, Thrace, Africa, Italy, and the city of Rome. The pope was ceded the entire Western ...

[[Image:First century palestine.gif|thumb|200px|Judea in the first century CE. Jamnia is shown due west of Jerusalem near the Mediterranean coast.]] ...

at the home of Zechariah in the hill country of Judea, where Mary obediently traveled immediately after receiving the Annunciation. Reverend Moon identifies ...

Archelaus of Cappadocia) and Alexander of Judea (the brother of Herod Archelaus ... full attention to the mounting problems in Judea, which broke into open warfare ...

returned to their home in the hill country of Judea, both he and Elizabeth proved equal to the task. Overjoyed, Elizabeth declared, "The Lord has ...

Tensions between Judea and Samaria intensified after the Maccabeean revolt. Shechem fell about 128 B.C.E. as a result of the military invasion ...

After the Jews returned from exile in Babylon, Bethel belonged to Judea rather than Samaria (Ezra 2:28). At the time of the Maccabees it housed ...

The Dead Sea lies between the hills of Judea to the west and the Transjordanian ... Dead Sea, as "the most fertile spot in Judea." In Roman and Byzantine ...

flee Jerusalem to the outlying areas of Judea and Samaria, although the ... work of the Holy Spirit as it moves beyond Judea and begins to bring large ...

:Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc [Habakkuk], and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the ...

concerning the duration of this activity in Judea. It is assumed that John, in common with the other Apostles, remained some 12 years in this ...

and the Politics of Second Temple Judea. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0664229917 * Rose, Wolter H. "Zemah ...

Tradition holds that Saint Jude preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia and Libya. He is also said to have visited ...

was a serious blow to the Yahweh-only faction in Judea. In 2 Chronicles 35:25, the prophet Jeremiah wrote a lament for Josiah's passing. A Jewish ...

briefer reign. After this, the Romans governed Judea through a procurator and appointed the high priest directly, causing the office to be seen by some ...

, Hagadah Hamaaravit), also known as Judea and Samaria, is a landlocked ... Israelis refer to the region either as "The West Bank or as Judea ...

were persecuted by Jewish authorities in Judea and Samaria (Acts 8) shortly after Saint Stephen's disastrous confrontation with a mob outside ...

and the Politics of Second Temple Judea. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. ISBN 9780664229917 *Rose, Wolter H. Zemah and Zerubbabel: ...

but also Syria, the Decapolis, the Transjordan, and Judea (4:2-25). In Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount is the first unique teaching of Jesus ...

, speaks of “Nazara” as a village in "Judea" and locates it near an as-yet unidentified “Cochaba.” This curious description does not ...

executed by order of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, sometime ... rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were ...

Greeks, who borrowed the practice from Israel and Judea. Alexander the Great brought the Library of Solomon from his conquest of Persia, where it was ...

of them. The southern slopes of the mountains of Judea are called the "mount of the Amorites" (Deut. 1:7, 19, 20). One possible etymology for ...

erase the Jewish connection to the land of Judea, renaming it Syria Palaestina ... of Jerusalem are the mainly barren hills of Judea. The central highlands average ...

great Jewish philosophical writer after Philo of Judea. Saadia was the first to organize a Hebrew dictionary, the Agron, which became the foundation ...

did not help his popularity in Jerusalem and Judea. Thus even at the time of Jesus, the descendants of Esau and Jacob were still being challenged ...

:Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc [Habakkuk], and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the ...

he spent his early years in the mountainous tract of Judea, in the wilderness between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea (Matt. 3:1-12). The Gospels add that ...

hearing that Herod's son Archelaus reigns in Judea in place of his father, he "withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in ...

period from this point until the Common Era, Judea remained a smaller and less influential province than did its northern neighbor, Samaria. ...

documented, though it was "a city of Judea" according to Luke 23:51. Arimathea is usually identified with either Ramleh or Ramathaim ...

supremacy in Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, and Judea (present day Israel). The ... After that Pompey captured Jerusalem. At the time Judea was racked ...

brothers. A settlement was arranged in which Judea would be ceded to al-Aziz and Latakia to az-Zahir, but both would recognize their older brother's ...

account for the regular travel of sages between Judea and Babylonia to collect and transmit scholarly teachings. Furthermore, scholar Hugh Odeberg has ...

shrines to him that had existed elsewhere in Judea (2 Kings 18:22). *He abolished idol worship, which had resumed under his father's reign ...

called the "father of history," visited Judea c.450 B.C.E. and wrote that he heard of dragons, described as small, flying reptile-like creatures ...

his title, Christus, and his execution in Judea by order of Pontius Pilatus ... known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai), king of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 B ...

the behavior of his countrymen still living in Judea. The elders of the exiles repeatedly visited him (chapters 8, 14, and 22). However, he was not ...

who was rewarded by being appointed governor of Judea. Restlessness in Palestine caused Trajan to send his favorite, as a legate of consular rank ...

visited Herod (appointed as a vassal king of Judea by the Roman Empire), asking him where the new king could be found. Herod, showing his knowledge of ...

*Theudas (44 – 46 C.E.) in the Roman province of Judea *Menahem ben Judah, partook in a revolt against Agrippa II in Judea ...

that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea (Matthew 2:12-23). Furthermore, the Egyptian Church, which is now more than nineteen centuries ...

are resisting Jesus' decision to return to Judea, where the Jews had previously tried to stone Jesus, when Thomas says: "Let us also go ...

Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; ...

Jews who assimilated into Greek culture after Judea's occupation by Alexander the Great). In 1987, Rabbi Kahane opened a yeshiva, Yeshivat Haraayon ...

writer of post-Biblical Judaism after Philo of Judea. His works include several philosophical and theological treatises; two Arabic translations of ...

and performed baptisms. They dwelled in east Judea and northern Mesopotamia, whence the Mandaeans claim to have migrated to southern Mesopotamia ...

This is a custom practiced among the Bedouin of the Judea, Negev, and Sinai. It is also practiced and is said to have originated among some Bedouin tribes ...

Certain circles in Judaism, such as the Essenes in Judea and the Therapeutae in Egypt, were said to have had a secret literature (see Dead Sea scrolls ...

a peace. Hadrian's anti-Jewish persecutions in Judea led to the massive Jewish uprising (132 C.E.–135 C.E.) led by Bar Kokhba and Rabbi Akiva ...

lands across the Empire, including Egypt, Judea, Libya, Mauretania, and many of the peoples conquered by his predecessor Trajan, so he was keen ...

within the Hellenistic world. Outside Judea, many Jews may have needed synagogue readings or texts for religious study to be interpreted into ...

*Entering Judea (19:1-2) *Teaching about divorce (19:3–12) *Rich man's salvation (19:16–27) *Twelve thrones of judgment (19:28-30) ...

Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva—also spelled Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ...

the West Bank, which they call "Judea and Samaria," with the goal of absorbing it into Israel because of its Jewish occupation in biblical ...

worship. Non-Jewish populations in Judea and Samaria in the period between 400 B.C.E. and the Common Era no doubt continued to worship Baal and ...

part in the campaigns against Aristobulus in Judea, and in support of Ptolemy XII in Egypt. In the ensuing campaign, he demonstrated his talents as ...

mother of Jesus Christ. Like the Ark, Mary goes to Judea and remains for three months. Upon her return, Elizabeth asks, "How is it that the Mother ...

be the result of men coming to Antioch from Judea and "teaching the brothers: ... raised money for victims of a famine in Judea and his journey to Jerusalem ...

Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language of Judea in the first century C.E. ... on the Mount of Olives and soon left Judea towards the Sea of Galilee ...

33 C.E.) by Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. According to the New Testament, this was at the instigation of the Jewish leaders, who were ...

the Jewish faith and became procurator of Judea and prefect of Egypt. Philo mentions that he once visited Jerusalem. From Philo’s works it is ...

a personal friend of the Emperor and king of Judea. == Downward spiral == Outlandish stories cluster about the raving emperor, illustrating his ...

but among the Jews throughout the land of Judea and the Diaspora. ===Devoted to The Lord=== The Jerusalem Temple is portrayed in the biblical ...

* Glick, Leonard B. Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0195315943. ...

of Jerusalem are the mainly barren hills of Judea. The central highlands average ... The main Jewish population shifted from the Judea region to the Galilee. The ...

E., Jews had been living in settlements outside of Judea, and most of the captives did not return home to Jerusalem when this was finally allowed. After ...

[[Image:Ploughing in Judea.jpg|thumb|275px|A farmer plows his fields in Judea, 1913.]] *Frame *Frog *Share (also called a plowshare or ploughshare) ...

with Gedaliah, the newly appointed governor of Judea. Gedaliah was soon assassinated as a collaborationist by an Amorite agent. He was succeeded by ...

**Let's return to Judea (11:7) **Jesus wept (11:35) *Plot to kill Jesus (11:45-57) *Mary anoints Jesus (12:1-8) *Plot to kill Lazarus (12:9-11) ...

|death_place=Bethlehem, Judea |titles=Doctor of the Church |beatified_date=1747 |beatified_place= |beatified_by=Benedict XIV |canonized_date=1767 ...

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at Ein Gedi, built during the Roman occupation of Judea, which was decorated with a swastika."[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History ...

|Healed large crowds in Judea ||Matt|19:1-2 | | | | |- |Healed two blind men ||Matt|20:29-34 | | | | |- |Healed the blind beggar Bartimaeus ...

In the Near East, famous monastic communities were the Essenes in Judea and the Therapeutae in Egypt. Marcel Simon and James H. Farley, (tr.) ...

The Christian Church originated in Roman Judea in the first century AD/CE, founded on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, who first gathered ...

eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea that was renamed Palaestina in 135 C.E. In 324 C.E., Christianity became the religion ...

of Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Judea were annexed under various circumstances during his term. The annexation of Mauretania, begun ...

Elephant is the common name for any of the large land mammals comprising the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, characterized by thick ...

In 586 B.C.E., Nebuchadnezzar II conquered Judea, destroyed Jerusalem, including Solomon's Temple, and sent an estimated 15,000 captives ...

in a cave to escape Roman persecution in Judea during the second century. In more than a decade of hiding, they wrote down their contemplations ...

#039;s army crushed a massive Jewish uprising in Judea (132-135 C.E.) led by Simon Bar Kokhba. Hadrian was the first emperor to extensively tour ...

them, and continued to the south, capturing Judea, Gush Etzion, and Hebron. The Harel brigade proceeded eastward, descending to the Jordan River ...

which is also the language spoken by the Jews in Judea and Galilee at the time of Jesus. This language was not used by the vast majority of the Christians ...