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The Field of Blood is a Scottish crime drama television series, broadcast between 8 May 2011 and 9 August 2013, adapting the novels of Denise Mina. Jayd Johnson stars as the protagonist, Paddy Meehan, working for a Glasgow newspaper in the 1980s.
In Acts 1:19 it is implied that the field is so known because of Judas' blood from his horrific death. In Matthew, it is implied that it is named for its connection to the blood money that had purchased Jesus' innocent blood. In Acts, the field is referenced by its Hebrew name Akeldama, but Matthew does not refer to it as such.
Deeming it as blood money, and therefore illegal to put into their treasury, they used it instead to buy a field as a burial ground for foreigners: thus the place gained the name "the Field of Blood" (Matthew 27:7, and possibly with allusions to Zechariah 11:12–13 and Jeremiah 18:2–3 and Jeremiah 32:6–15).
Akeldama (from the Aramaic: "field of blood"), a place associated with Judas Iscariot in Jerusalem; Battle of Ager Sanguinis, near Sarmada in Syria on June 28, 1119; The Field of Blood (TV series), a 2011 BBC miniseries, based on the 2005 novel of the same name "Fields of Blood; Harvesters of Hate", a song by Sentenced from the 1993 album North ...
A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people. "Potter's field" is of Biblical origin, referring to Akeldama (meaning field of blood in Aramaic ), stated to have been purchased after Judas Iscariot 's suicide by the chief priests of Jerusalem with the coins that had been paid ...
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Even so, the defeat at the Field of Blood left Antioch severely weakened, and subject to repeated attacks by the Muslims in the following decade. Eventually, the Principality came under the influence of a resurgent Byzantine Empire. The Crusaders regained some of their influence in Syria at the Battle of Azaz six years later in 1125.