Search results for "Judea" - New World Encyclopedia
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- are resisting Jesus' decision to return to Judea, where the Jews had previously tried to stone Jesus, when Thomas says: "Let us also go ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 17:42, 23 May 2024
- Jews who assimilated into Greek culture after Judea's occupation by Alexander the Great). In 1987, Rabbi Kahane opened a yeshiva, Yeshivat Haraayon ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- writer of post-Biblical Judaism after Philo of Judea. His works include several philosophical and theological treatises; two Arabic translations of ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- and performed baptisms. They dwelled in east Judea and northern Mesopotamia, whence the Mandaeans claim to have migrated to southern Mesopotamia ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,703 words) - 22:10, 21 June 2024
- lands across the Empire, including Egypt, Judea, Libya, Mauretania, and many of the peoples conquered by his predecessor Trajan, so he was keen ...23 KB (3,617 words) - 22:11, 21 June 2024
- within the Hellenistic world. Outside Judea, many Jews may have needed synagogue readings or texts for religious study to be interpreted into ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- *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) ...26 KB (3,770 words) - 04:29, 24 May 2024
- 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 ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- the West Bank, which they call "Judea and Samaria," with the goal of absorbing it into Israel because of its Jewish occupation in biblical ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- 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 ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 16:00, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- 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 ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
