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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Idumaea (Idumea)
Edom, under its Greek and Roman name, south of Judea. John Hyrcanus had forced it into Judea, and Herod the Great's family came from its people. Mark lists it among the places crowds came from to see Jesus.
Edom, under its Greek and Roman name, south of Judea. John Hyrcanus had forced it into Judea, and Herod the Great's family came from its people. Mark lists it among the places crowds came from to see Jesus.
The Greek and Roman name for Edom, the region south of Judea named for Esau's descendants. By the New Testament era its Idumean population had been forcibly incorporated into Judea under the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus, and it was from this Idumean stock that the family of Herod the Great descended; Mark 3:8 lists Idumea among the regions from which crowds came to Jesus.
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- Mark 3:8
