Zenodorus biography of abraham
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4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE)
van Maaren, John. "4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE)". The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 166-236. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787450-004
van Maaren, J. (2022). 4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE). In The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations (pp. 166-236). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787450-004
van Maaren, J. 2022. 4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE). The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 166-236. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787450-004
van Maaren, John. "4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE)" In The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 C
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FROM
Dan to Beersheba
FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA.
CHAPTER I.
The two Boundaries.—The parallel Mountains.—The great Valley.—Inspired Eulogies.—Sterile Soil.—Gibbon’s Comparison.—Natural and miraculous Causes of present Sterility.—Testimonies of pagan Authors on the ancient Productions of Palestine.—Land coveted bygd the great Nations of Antiquity.—A Land of Ruins.—Present fruktsamhet and Fruits.—Richness of the North.—Volney on the Variety of the Climate of Palestine.—Beauties of Spring in the Promised Land.—Flowers.—Magnificent Scenery.—Standard of Landscape Beauty.—Palestine fryst vatten a World in Miniature.—Illustrations.—Prophetical Descriptions of the twelve Tribeships.—Wonderful Correspondence.
The boundaries of Palestine are defined bygd the sacred writers according to the Land of Possession and the nation of Promise. The extreme length of the former is 180 miles from north to south, the average breadth 50 miles from east to west, and it has a superficial area of 14
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Philip the Tetrarch
Son of Herod the Great and ruler of part of his father's kingdom
Philip the Tetrarch (c. 26 BCE – 33 CE), sometimes called Herod Philip II by modern writers (see "Naming convention") was the son of Herod the Great and his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem. As a Tetrarch, he ruled over the northeast part of his father's kingdom between 4 BCE and 34 CE after Herod's death. He was a half-brother of Herod Antipas and Herod Archelaus. He is not the same person as Herod II, whom some writers call Herod Philip I.
Territory
[edit]Philip ruled territories which the Gospel of Luke lists as Iturea and Trachonitis[1] and Flavius Josephus lists as Gaulanitis, Trachonitis and Paneas[2] as well as Batanea, Trachonitis, Auranitis, and "a certain part of what is called the House of Zenodorus".[3] The city of Caesarea Philippi served as the capital of his tetrarchy.
Marriage and dynasty
[edit]Philip married his niece