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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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Tetrarch of Abilene, on the eastern slope of the Anti-Lebanon near Damascus, and one of the rulers Luke uses to date his story. Josephus confirms the tetrarchy was real.
Tetrarch of Abilene, on the eastern slope of the Anti-Lebanon near Damascus, and one of the rulers Luke uses to date his story. Josephus confirms the tetrarchy was real.
The most minor name in Luke's whole list of rulers (3:1), tetrarch of Abilene, otherwise unattested in the Gospels. Josephus confirms the tetrarchy was real and names its later fate: folded into Herod Agrippa I's kingdom a few years after Luke's date, exactly the kind of small-print detail a fabricated list would be unlikely to get right.
Tetrarch of Abilene (Luke 3:1), on the eastern slope of Anti-Lebanon, near the city of Damascus.
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- Luke 3:1
