This article presents a timeline of the name Judea through an incomplete list of notable historical references to the name through the various time periods of the region.
1st-cent. CE: Aramaic
Scroll of Antiochus: "…In the twenty-third year of his (
Antiochus Eupator) reign, in the two-hundred and thirteenth year of the rebuilding of this, God's house (Temple), he put his face to go up to Jerusalem. He then answered and said to his nobles, 'Do you not know that the Jewish people in Judea, between us, they do not worship our God, nor do they practice our customs, and they leave off from following the king's religion for their own religion,' etc."[1]
189 CE: The
Mishnah: "Three countries are to be distinguished in what concerns the law of removal [of seventh year produce once the growing season has past]: Judea,
beyond Jordan and
Galilee."[8]
392:
Epiphanius of Salamis, On Weights and Measures: "So [Hadrian] passed through the city of Antioch and passed through [Coele-Syria] and Phoenicia and came to Palestine — which is also called Judea — forty-seven years after the destruction of Jerusalem."[9]
c. 1130,
Fetellus, "The city of Jerusalem is situated in the hill-country of Judea, in the province of Palestine" [10]
1746: Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations: "Palestine, or the Holy Land, sometimes also called Judea, is bound by Mount Libanus on the north; by Arabia Deserta on the east; by Arabia Petrea on the south; and by the Mediterranean Sea on the west"[11]
Biblical references
The name occurs multiple times as a geographic region in the
Hebrew Bible, in both Hebrew and Aramaic:
Daniel 2:25, 5:13, 6:13
Ezra 5:1, 7:14 and the "province Judah" 5:8
Nehemiah 11:3
During the time of the
New Testament, the region was a
Roman province. The name Judea occurs 44 times in the New Testament.
^The Scroll of Antiochus (Megillath Benei Hashmonai), printed in the
YemeniteBaladi-rite prayer book, Sefer Ha-Tiklāl (Tiklal Qadmonim), ed. Yosef Ḥubārah, Jerusalem 1964, pp. 75b–ff.
This article presents a timeline of the name Judea through an incomplete list of notable historical references to the name through the various time periods of the region.
1st-cent. CE: Aramaic
Scroll of Antiochus: "…In the twenty-third year of his (
Antiochus Eupator) reign, in the two-hundred and thirteenth year of the rebuilding of this, God's house (Temple), he put his face to go up to Jerusalem. He then answered and said to his nobles, 'Do you not know that the Jewish people in Judea, between us, they do not worship our God, nor do they practice our customs, and they leave off from following the king's religion for their own religion,' etc."[1]
189 CE: The
Mishnah: "Three countries are to be distinguished in what concerns the law of removal [of seventh year produce once the growing season has past]: Judea,
beyond Jordan and
Galilee."[8]
392:
Epiphanius of Salamis, On Weights and Measures: "So [Hadrian] passed through the city of Antioch and passed through [Coele-Syria] and Phoenicia and came to Palestine — which is also called Judea — forty-seven years after the destruction of Jerusalem."[9]
c. 1130,
Fetellus, "The city of Jerusalem is situated in the hill-country of Judea, in the province of Palestine" [10]
1746: Modern History Or the Present State of All Nations: "Palestine, or the Holy Land, sometimes also called Judea, is bound by Mount Libanus on the north; by Arabia Deserta on the east; by Arabia Petrea on the south; and by the Mediterranean Sea on the west"[11]
Biblical references
The name occurs multiple times as a geographic region in the
Hebrew Bible, in both Hebrew and Aramaic:
Daniel 2:25, 5:13, 6:13
Ezra 5:1, 7:14 and the "province Judah" 5:8
Nehemiah 11:3
During the time of the
New Testament, the region was a
Roman province. The name Judea occurs 44 times in the New Testament.
^The Scroll of Antiochus (Megillath Benei Hashmonai), printed in the
YemeniteBaladi-rite prayer book, Sefer Ha-Tiklāl (Tiklal Qadmonim), ed. Yosef Ḥubārah, Jerusalem 1964, pp. 75b–ff.