Search results for "Judea" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- great Jewish philosophical writer after Philo of Judea. Saadia was the first to organize a Hebrew dictionary, the Agron, which became the foundation ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- :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 ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (3,211 words) - 17:11, 4 May 2024
- 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 ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- period from this point until the Common Era, Judea remained a smaller and less influential province than did its northern neighbor, Samaria. ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- documented, though it was "a city of Judea" according to Luke 23:51. Arimathea is usually identified with either Ramleh or Ramathaim ...19 KB (3,085 words) - 05:03, 7 May 2024
- supremacy in Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, and Judea (present day Israel). The ... After that Pompey captured Jerusalem. At the time Judea was racked ...48 KB (7,762 words) - 08:50, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- account for the regular travel of sages between Judea and Babylonia to collect and transmit scholarly teachings. Furthermore, scholar Hugh Odeberg has ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- 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 ...20 KB (3,298 words) - 11:58, 22 January 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,239 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- 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 ...41 KB (6,172 words) - 22:02, 17 February 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- who was rewarded by being appointed governor of Judea. Restlessness in Palestine caused Trajan to send his favorite, as a legate of consular rank ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- *Theudas (44 – 46 C.E.) in the Roman province of Judea *Menahem ben Judah, partook in a revolt against Agrippa II in Judea ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
