HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA where a woman washes Jesus’

where a woman washes Jesus’ feet with her tears

which provided the bullion

or a narrow coastal strip from Acre (ʿAkko) northward

while the exterior can be only partially slipped

Felix's cruelty

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA where a woman washes Jesus’During the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus