So an “ioudaious”, “Judaean”, or Jew in the New Testament could be any person who lived in Judaea, whereas we’ve seen there were quite a few Israelites of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin. There were also a lot of Edomite Judaeans along with Romans, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians,...
“I decided to sculpt the shapes that I was drawing, and everyone who saw them said they were sculptural. I remember that I had visited Michel Basbous in the village of Rachana and was enchanted by this world,” she said in Vogue (more about Michel Basbous and the Basbous family can be...
He notes that frankincense and myrrh were the source of the riches of the Nabatean Arab kingdom, outside the Roman Empire in North Arabia, based at Petra, the city carved from rock and that gold was a universal currency.The Nabateans had long been familiar with Jews and were aware of ...