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Josephus relates that there was a Mary, daughter of Eleazar originally from the village of Bethezuba in the district of Perea, east of the Jordan River, who had previously fled to Jerusalem. Distinguished in family and fortune, her property, treasures and food had been plundered by the Jewish defenders of the city during the siege.
Salome with John the Baptist's head, by Charles Mellin (1597–1649). Salome (/ s ə ˈ l oʊ m i, ˈ s æ l ə m eɪ /; Hebrew: שְלוֹמִית, romanized: Shlomit, related to שָׁלוֹם, Shalom "peace"; Greek: Σαλώμη), [1] also known as Salome III, [2] [note 1] was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias.
As a non-Biblical source, Jewish historian Josephus also recounts that Herod had John imprisoned and killed due to "the great influence John had over the people", which might persuade John "to raise a rebellion". Josephus also writes that many of the Jews believed that Herod's later military disaster was God's punishment for his treatment of ...
Salome delivers the head of John the Baptist, Juan de Flandes, 1496 Schematic family tree showing the Herods of the Bible. In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Herodias plays a major role in the execution of John the Baptist, using her daughter's dance before Antipas and his party guests to ask for the head of the Baptist as a reward. According ...
Josephus's paternal grandparents were a man also named Joseph(us) and his wife—an unnamed Hebrew noblewoman—distant relatives of each other. [16] Josephus's family was wealthy. He descended through his father from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib , which was the first of the 24 orders of priests in the Temple in Jerusalem . [ 17 ]
The couple wed in front of family and friends at John's childhood church in Queens, New York in 2018. John and Taras share daughter Minka Jagger, whom they welcomed on March 2, 2016. John also has ...
Just before John Carter was to stand trial for his fiancée Katelyn Markham’s 2011 death, he pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter. He mourned his missing fiancée for a ...
Jephthah's daughter, sometimes later referred to as Seila or as Iphis, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is recounted in Judges 11. The judge Jephthah had just won a battle over the Ammonites , and vowed he would give the first thing that came out of his house as a burnt offering to God .