- Be'er Sheva. The
people appear under a Gr**** form of
their old name, as
Idumeans or Idumaeans, and
their new
territory was
called Idumea or
Idumaea (Gr****:...
- (Gr****: Kωζαι Kōzai) was the
national god of the Edomites. He was the
Idumean structural parallel to Yahweh. The name
occurs only
twice in the Old Testament...
-
Josephus as
referring to
Herod as "no more than a
private man, and an
Idumean, i.e. a half Jew".
Early Church Fathers often portray Herod polemically...
- also the
Galilee and Transjordan. In the
beginning of this
process the
Idumeans, who had
infiltrated southern Judea after the
destruction of the First...
- the
Herodian dynasty in 37 BC. The
installation of
Herod the
Great (an
Idumean) as king in 37 BC made
Judea a
Roman client state and
marked the end of...
- and Jew when they
converted Idumeans but others, who held a
strict interpretation of
Deuteronomy 17:15,
feared the
Idumean Herodians would usurp the Hasmoneans...
-
Nabataean Petra,
Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, 2013 pp.35–55 pp.47–48: 'the
Idumean texts indicate that a
large portion of the
community in
southern Palestine...
-
themselves in the Temple.
Urged by John of Gischala, they
summoned the
Idumeans, who
entered the city
under the
cover of a
storm and
aided in the m****acre...
-
family were
Idumean Arabs forcibly converted to
Judaism by John Hyrc**** and
whose mother,
according to Josephus, was non-Jewish (either an
Idumean Arab or...
- Jews
questioned the
authenticity of Herod's
Judaism on
account of his
Idumean background and his
infamous murders of
members of his family. However,...
