HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA a sinful woman washes Jesus’

a sinful woman washes Jesus’ feet with her tears and dries them with her hair

Felix's cruelty

or a narrow coastal strip from Acre (ʿAkko) northward

folded inward

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA a sinful woman washes Jesus’During the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus