How To Use Judea In A Sentence
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Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Beginning with the fruits of the oleaster and white mulberry in the early season, the ingathering of wheat, of almonds and Beyrout honey, of apples and apricots and corn, of grapes and of figs, of maize and of pomegranates and dates, of olives and walnuts, had taken place as the months passed, and now from the northern bounds of Galilee to the southern edge of Judea and from
The Coming of the King
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The word means "oil" in the ancient Hebrew that harks back to the Bible that settlers say promised them the West Bank, which they call Samaria and Judea.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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They give the name Aram to that part of Syria which, beginning near Judea, embraces Armenia and other extensive regions, and reaches almost to the Euxine Sea.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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OF THE HOLY LAND, JERUSALEM: This region, Jerusalem and Judea, represented an important land bridge between Syria and Egypt.
CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009
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He managed to track down the man responsible for the find, who took him to the very cave-in the Judean desert not far from Bethlehem - in which the sculpture of the lovers had been discovered.
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Phase one will refer to the predations of the Neo-Babylonian empire as it sought to quell the Judean rebellions in 597 and between 589-587 BCE.
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Hebron settlers live on the land, which they term Judea and Samaria, out of religious conviction.
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51who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.
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Simon enjoyed peace in Judea because Syria was occupied elsewhere.
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They were such as he had an intimate acquaintance with, being not only their countryman, but their companion in tribulation; they and he were fellow-sufferers, and had lately been fellow-travellers, in very melancholy circumstances, from Judea to Babylon, and had often mingled their tears, which could not but knit their affections to each other.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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This is especially germane to the many settlers who conceive of their identity as directly connected to the land comprising what they call Judea and Samaria.
Mira Sucharov: West Bank Settlers' Buy-in
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The name "Canaan" is used to imply that they had made Judea as much the scene of abominations as it was in the days of the corrupt
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The New Testament records that observant Judeans wore decorations called tassels on their garments.
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Greater clarity, however, can be achieved regarding the function of these social centers if they are understood as embedded within familistic or political relations - Judean, urban, imperial.
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These two, doubtless, came to be known in Judea from the intercourse with
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But, as Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator of Judea, supposedly asked, ‘Quid est veritas?’
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The balm tree is no longer found in Judea.
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Judea, the preacher of earthly prosperity, of goodness, and justice, opposing the narrow doctrines and minute and senseless ceremonialism inculcated by the priests, who were the predecessors of the Rabbis.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
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The mountain of the Amorites took its beginning from Cadesh-barnea, the southern border, of the land of Israel, -- and, by a hardened gibbosity, thrust forward itself into Judea beyond Hebron, the name only being changed into the "Hill-country of Judea.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Brian fixates on a rebellious young woman called Judith and gets tangled up with the People's Front of Judea (not to be confused with the Judean People's Front).
Life of Brian: No 10
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Born in A.D. 9 into a family of low-tier country nobility, Vespasian rose through the army ranks, becoming the general in charge of putting down a Jewish revolt in Judea.
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For Israel, this compromise must take the form of abandonment of its historic and Biblical claims to what it calls Judea and Samaria.
Alan Dershowitz: Obama Explains -- and Makes It Worse
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Even when Baron Edmond de Rothschild tried, not very successfully, to revive wine growing in the Promised Land in the 1880s, he chose to do it on the coastal plain; the Judean Hills were then relatively remote and more difficult for vine-growing than the plains.
Young Vineyards, Biblical Pedigrees
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Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA marked the yahrzeit of his son by writing an article published in the Wall Street Journal.
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In the post-exilic period, there has been dispute between Samaritans and Judahites/Judeans/Jews about Mount Gerizim vs. Jerusalem (see John 4 in the NT) as the appropriate cultic site.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
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For supporting Julius Caesar they were rewarded well: Hyrcanus was made ethnarch as well as High Priest and Antipater was made procurator of Judea.
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In the post-exilic period, there has been dispute between Samaritans and Judahites/Judeans/Jews about Mount Gerizim vs. Jerusalem (see John 4 in the NT) as the appropriate cultic site.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
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(IsraelNN. com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that there was no indication from the Palestinian Authority (PA) that it was interested in peace talks, despite what he called the removal of security checkpoints in Judea and Samaria "at a pace that has not been done until now, which is noticeable in its effect on the Palestinian economy.
Undefined
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[11] This ancient city Hamath, which is joined with Arpad, or Aradus, and with Damascus, 2 Kings 18: 34; Isaiah 36: 19; Jeremiah 49: 23, cities of Syria and Phoenicia, near the borders of Judea, was also itself evidently near the same borders, though long ago utterly destroyed.
Antiquities of the Jews
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However, on the arrival of some believers from Judea, allied with James on the issue of table fellowship, Peter declined to eat with Gentiles on the grounds of ritual impurity.
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Palestine was a civilized country, and the Hebrews were a great people; and I consider the precedent set by our blessed Lord is a command to be followed in all time, and that his appearance in Judea is tantamount to his saying to his apostles, 'go and preach me and my gospel to all _civilized_ people.'
Satanstoe
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He has spent much of his political career railing against the idea of ceding "Judea and Samaria" (the occupied West Bank) to the Palestinians.
Leon T. Hadar: The Last Summit?
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The Judean businessman knows the value of time very much, thinking that time is also a merchandise.
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The Second Testament Judean writers used the Greek term eirene for shalom, possessing much the same meaning and usage to apply to the gospel.
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The farthing was a small coin used in Judea, equal to two mites.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
Recovering From Religious Abuse
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The term Jewish is modern, the Greek word in the New Testament meant "Judean, person of Judea".
Dissident Voice
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Sloping down from the Judean hills toward the plain of Philistia and the Mediterranean Sea is the Shefelah, or Lowlands, a section of
Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
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In a wide and more improper sense, the term Judea was sometimes extended to the whole country of the
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The word means oil in the ancient Hebrew that harks back to the Bible - settlers say it promised them the West Bank, which they call Samaria and Judea.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Each of these was built along the Babylonian model, as a self-governing fragment of the fallen Judean kingdom.
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Judea admits of a high state of cultivation, and requires it, in order to be productive; its present barrenness is due to neglect.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The New Testament records that observant Judeans wore decorations called tassels on their garments.
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For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity.
The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864
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Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David.
Religion
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Israel cites historical and Biblical links to the West Bank, which it calls Judea and Samaria.
Reuters: Press Release
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According to Irenaeus he claimed to have appeared in Samaria as the Father, in Judea as the Son, and among the heathen as the Holy Ghost, a manifestation of the Eternal.
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The tidings spread with wonderful rapidity in the wilderness of Judea.
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The ostraca are included, while texts from other sites in the Judean Desert will be included in a subsequent volume of the concordance.
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More than a quarter million Palestinians live in the shadow of the Israeli's separation barrier, particularly in spots where the barrier is jig-sawed to protect hilltop settlers in what they refer to as Judea and Samaria.
Jan McGirk: Checkpoint: Backscatter Fears and Naked Aggression
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Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces, and that they would join their country to Syria, and administer the government by their own commanders, whereby it would [soon] be demonstrated that those who are now under the calumny of seditious persons, and lovers of war, know how to bear governors that are set over them, if they be but tolerable ones.
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem
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It's all the more extraordinary that kawanatanga was minted back in 1840 to explain a King of Judea who lived 2000 years ago.
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This encomium of praise for the liberating Romans was soon replaced by a rather different view in mainstream Judean opinion.
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Both are seasoned warriors with a strong attachment to the land and a belief that the Jews have a historical right to remain in the West Bank, or what they call Judea and Samaria.
Point Man In A War Of Bloody Attrition
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They soon established that Pompey had a force of eight well-equipped legions, with his personal headquarters encamped—at any rate the last time Nepos had seen him—south of Judea, a few hundred miles from the city of Petra.
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The Judean Desert, with it's dramatic, craggy cliffs, offers special opportunities for adventurous hikes, climbing, and rappelling.
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Of course the Judeans [Jews] had occupied the atrea for the prvious 900 years prior to that cheerful lttle fella nebuchadnezzar and his troops, who invaded their land in order to ensure that the Borders of the Egyptian Empire were well policed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of “Greater Israel” as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call “Judea and Samaria.”
Matthew Yglesias » Do Critics of Israeli Policy Whine Too Much?
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Shamir later admitted he had a different agenda in agreeing to the talks, explaining after leaving office that "I would have carried on autonomy talks for ten years and meanwhile we would have reached a half million people in Judea and Samaria [i.e., the West Bank].
Osamah Khalil: Contradiction in Washington Prevents Peace in the Middle East
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If the basin be large in proportion to the amount of the incurrent water, this evaporation may exceed the supply, and produce a sea with no outlet, such as we find in the Dead Sea of Judea, in that at Salt Lake, Utah, and in a host of other less important basins.
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
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In 1947, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a long-untouched cave and found jars filled with ancient scrolls .
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In the camera was a polished pewter plate coated with a petroleum product called bitumen of Judea.
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Her mother-in-law belonged to an old Baghdad Jewish family which had decamped to Israel, where she married a man named Judea.
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I remember watching Begin declare Judea and Samaria part of Isreal.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence