Crossword clues for judea
judea
- Part of Palestine, once
- Where Herod ruled
- Where Herod reigned
- West Bank area, once
- Region of old Palestine
- Pilate's domain
- Land occupied by Israel since 1967 (Var.)
- Land occupied by Israel since 1967
- Kingdom in ancient Palestine
- Jerusalem's region
- Herod's land
- Bethlehem setting
- Ancient Palestinian kingdom
- Ancient kingdom that included Bethlehem
- "The Passion of the Christ" setting
- Bethlehem's region
- Home of ancient Bethlehem
- Herod's realm
- Region of ancient Palestine
- Southern region of ancient Palestine
- The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah
- A Roman province at the time of Christ
- Law supported by one biblical region
- Biblical kingdom
- Holy Land
- Herod's kingdom
- Ancient Dead Sea region
- Roman province governed by Pontius Pilate
- Pontius Pilate's province
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Latin Judaea, from Judah (see Judah).
Wikipedia
The Roman province of Judea ( Hebrew: יהודה, Standard Yehuda Tiberian Yehûḏāh; ; ; ), sometimes spelled in its original Latin forms of Judæa, Judaea or Iudaea to distinguish it from the geographical region of Judea, incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, and extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after Herod Archelaus's Tetrarchy of Judea, but the Roman province encompassed a much larger territory. The name "Judea" was derived from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE.
Judea province was the scene of unrest at its founding in 6 CE during the Census of Quirinius and several wars were fought in its history, known as the Jewish–Roman wars. The Temple was destroyed in 70 CE as part of the Great Jewish Revolt resulting in the institution of the Fiscus Judaicus, and after Bar Kokhba's revolt (132–135), the Roman Emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, which certain scholars conclude was done in an attempt to remove the relationship of the Jewish people to the region.
Judea or Judæa (; from , Standard Yəhuda Tiberian Yəhûḏāh, , Ioudaía; , , Yahudia) is the ancient biblical, Roman, and modern name of the mountainous southern part of Palestine. The name originates from the Hebrew, Canaanite and later neo-Babylonian and Persian name "Yehudah" or "Yehud" for the biblical Israelite tribe of Judah (Yehudah) and associated Kingdom of Judah, which the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia dates from 934 until 586 BCE. The name of the region continued to be incorporated through the Babylonian conquest, Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman periods as Yehud, Yehud Medinata, Hasmonean Judea, and consequently Herodian Judea and Roman Judea, respectively.
As a consequence of the Bar Kokhba revolt, in 135 CE the region was renamed and merged with Roman Syria to form Syria Palaestina by the victorious Roman Emperor Hadrian. A large part of Judea was included in Jordanian West Bank between 1948 and 1967 (i.e., the "West Bank" of the Kingdom of Jordan). The term Judea as a geographical term was revived by the Israeli government in the 20th century as part of the Israeli administrative district name Judea and Samaria Area for the territory generally referred to as the West Bank.
Usage examples of "judea".
In Judea, Felix knew he was innocent but wanted a bribe for his release.
Ostensibly he had started for Judea to collect the elect, as he phrased it, under one banner.
She had also pressed the support key which had informed her that Salome was the name attached by legend to the daughter of Herodias, wife of King Herod of Judea, who was mentioned in two of the gospels of the New Testament, the holy book of the Christian religion.
Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
The road led across the flat, fertile countryside of the littoral plain toward the ocher hills of Judea, through the waking village of Ramleh.
The seeds of the faith, which had slowly arisen in the rocky and ungrateful soil of Judea, were transplanted, in full maturity, to the happier climes of the Gentiles.
During that time the ten tribes, which on the division of the people were called Israel, were conquered by the Chaldeans and led captive into their lands, while the two tribes which were called Judah, and had the seat of their kingdom in Jerusalem, remained in the land of Judea.
First, the Assyrian colonies, which came and occupied the lands of the tribes, filled the kingdom of Samaria with dogmas of the Magi, which very soon penetrated into the kingdom of Judea.
There were those famous Ports of Idumea, whence the fleets of Phoenicia and Judea, coasting the Arabian peninsula, went into the Persian gulf, to seek there the pearls of Hevila, the gold of Saba and of Ophir.
Discerning that when the existing settlement was broken up some form of government must needs follow, they suggested the conversion of Judea into a province.
Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the field, to carry it to the reapers.
In the tens of centuries that had rolled by since the tribe of Abraham made the political decision to promote its local tribal deity, Yahweh, as the one and only god in the cosmos, worship of the Great Mother had continued in Judea and Israel.
If he could not himself see into the prisons of Judea, he could examine them with the eyes of others.
Now then, hand over the cities which you have seized and the tribute money of the places which you have conquered outside the borders of Judea.
They died doubtless in the cells of one of the castles which spot the waysides of Judea.