anti-Semitism, pagan
Martin Goodman
Modern accounts of hostility to Jews in classical antiquity have often been complicated by a concern to relate pagan anti-Semitism to the anti-Judaism of some early Christians and to the history of ...
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Archelaus (4), son of Herod (1) and Augustan ethnarch
Tessa Rajak
Archelaus (4), following the will left by his father *Herod (1), was appointed by Augustus ethnarch of the southern part of Herod's kingdom—*Judaea, *Samaria, and *Idumaea. Archelaus married ...
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Aristeas, Letter of
Tessa Rajak
The Alexandrian Jewish narrative of the making of the Greek translation of the Law (Torah) for the library of *Ptolemy (1) II Philadelphus, at the instigation of his librarian, *Demetrius (3) of ...
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Aristobulus (2), Alexandrian Jewish author, c. 2nd half of 2nd cent. BCE
William David Ross and Simon Hornblower
Aristobulus (2), an Alexandrian Jew (see alexandria), probably of the second half of the 2nd cent. bce, author of a commentary on the Pentateuch which is known only through quotations by *Clement of ...
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art, Jewish
Steven Fine
Architecture, coinage, and funerary remains reflect distinctive Jewish modes of participation in the larger visual culture of the Graeco-Roman period. Jews tended to distance themselves from ...
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Bar Kokhba
Edith Mary Smallwood and Tessa Rajak
Bar Kokhba, ‘son of a star’ in Aramaic, is the name given to the leader of the second Jewish revolt in Palestine (132–5ce), to whom was apparently applied by Rabbi Akiba the Messianic prophecy in ...
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Berenice (4), daughter of M. Iulius Agrippa I, b. 28 CE
Edith Mary Smallwood and M. T. Griffin
Berenice (4) (b. 28 ce), daughter of M. *Iulius Agrippa I, was married to Marcus, brother of Ti. *Iulius Alexander in 41, and then in 46 to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. From his death (48) she ...
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Caesarea (2) in Palestine
Edith Mary Smallwood and Tessa Rajak
Caesarea (2) in Palestine, under its original name of Strato's Tower (after a king of *Sidon), was captured by the *Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus in 103 bce, attached to the province of Syria by ...
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