Index of Persons

Abram. See Abraham

Abraham, 33, 49–51, 54, 79, 94, 98

Achior, 41

Adam, 35

Agrippa I, 53

Agrippa II, 101, 103

Akiba, R., 26–27, 122

Alexander, Yardena, 137

Alexander Jannaeus, 28, 44, 47, 103

Alexander the Great, 34, 39

Andrew, 140

Antoninus, 139

Arav, Rami, 140

Aristotle, 8, 25, 92, 97, 106

Archelaus, 13, 91

Arubas, Benjamin, 139

Augustus, 8

Bar Kokhba, Shimon, 24, 90

Ben Gurion, David, 29–30

R. Berakhiah, 133

Caesar, 8

Cleisthenes, 97

Constantine, 61, 80–81, 85, 128, 135, 145, 150

Cornelius, 78

Cyril of Scythopolis, 142

Cyrus, 34

David, King, 77, 98

Dio Cassius, 90

Diocletian, 92

Domitian, 55

Egeria, 135, 139, 141

Elazar Qalir, 136, 138

Elden, Struart, 7, 97

Eliade, Mircea, 120

Epiphanius, 135

Esau, 49

Esdraelon, 42

Eusebius of Caesarea, 76, 80, 141

Ezra, 36

Flavius Josephus, 11, 22, 33, 52–57, 64, 115, 131–34, 136, 140–42, 145, 147

Hadrian, 13, 25, 100

Hagar, 79

Hanina, 143

Hadutahu, 136, 138

Herod, 13, 91, 101

Herod Antipas, 91

Herodotus, 25, 87, 92

Herzl, Theodor, 29

Hezekiah, 37

Holofernes, 40

Isaac, 49, 54, 79

R. Isaac, 119

Ishmael, 54, 79

Jacob, 18, 59, 114, 118

Japhet, Sara, 10, 36

Jeroboam, 119

Jerome, 76, 81

Jeshbab, R., 27

Jesus, 3, 77–78, 128, 131, 134–36, 139–41, 143, 146, 150

John Hyrcanus, 28, 40, 44

Jonah, 27

Jonathan (Hasmonean), 44, 46

R. Jonathan, 122–23

R. Jose, 120

R. Jose the Galilean, 122

R. Jose ben Zimra, 119

Joseph, 120

Joseph (father of Jesus), 135

Joseph of Tiberias, 135

Josephus. See Flavius Josephus

Joshua, 46, 89, 94, 119, 123

R. Joshua, 143

Josiah, 37

Judah Aristobulus, 28, 44

Judah Maccabee, 22, 46

R. Judah ben R. Simon, 119

Judah the Prince, 105–6, 108, 144

Judith, 39

Jupiter, 55

Justin Martyr, 76, 80

Kant, Immanuel, 4

R. Leazer, 19

R. Levi, 133

Lot, 49

Mattathias, 44

Moses, 94, 123, 125

Nebuchadnezzar, 39

Noah, 50

Octavian. See Augustus

Og, 123, 125

Origen, 76, 80, 142

Ovid, 92

Paul, 11, 61, 78

Paula, 136–37, 139

Pausanius, 87

Peter, 140

Petrus Diaconus, 139

Philip the Tetrarch, 91, 140

Philo, 22, 60, 64, 69–72, 85, 92, 107, 115

Pinhas Hacohen, 136, 138

Plato, 8

Pliny, 64, 87

Polybius, 52

Pompey, 91

Ptolemy, 12, 87, 92

Rehoboam, 120

Sarah, 79

Sanballat, 36

R. Simeon ben Gamliel, 129

Simon (Hasmonean), 44, 46

R. Simon, 144

Solomon, 112

Sophocles, 7

Strabo, 87, 92

Theodosius, 137, 139–40

Thucydides, 97

Trajan, 92

Venus, 55

Vespasian, 53

Virgil, 55

R. Yochanan, 90, 119

Zavdi, 140