Antipatris (sources)
Survey of ancient sources on Antipatris
Overview
Antipatris is mentioned in the works of Josephus as well as in the New Testament.
Josephus' Works
Bellum Iudaicum
Bel I 99 -- Alexander was afraid of Antiochus, when he was marching against the Arabians; so he cut a deep trench between Antipatris, which was near the mountains, and the shores of Joppa...
Bel I 417 -- Herod was also a lover of his father, if any other person ever was so; for he made a monument for his father, even that city which he built in the finest plain that was in his kingdom, and which had rivers and trees in abundance, and named it Antipatris.
Bel II 513, 515 -- Cestius removed with his whole army, and marched to Antipatris; and when he was informed that there was a great body of Jewish forces gotten together in a certain tower called Aphek, he sent a party before to fight them; but this party dispersed the Jews by affrighting them before it came to a battle: so they came, and finding their camp deserted, they burnt it, as well as the villages that lay about it. Then Cestius marched from Antipatris to Lydda...
Bel II 554 -- ...the Jews went on pursuing the Romans as far as Antipatris; after which, seeing they could not overtake them, they came back...
Bel IV 443 -- At the beginning of the spring (Vespasian) took the greatest part of his army, and led it from Cesarea to Antipatris, where he spent two days in settling the affairs of that city, and then, on the third day, he marched on, laying waste and burning all the neighboring villages.
Antiquitates Iudaicae
Ant XIII 390 -- Antiochus made an expedition against Judea... So Alexander, out of fear of his coming, dug a deep ditch, beginning at Chabarzaba, which is now called Antipatris, to the sea of Joppa...
Ant XVI 143 -- Herod erected another city in the plain called Capharsaba, where he chose out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness of soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the best trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater.
New Testament
Acts of Apostles
Acts 23:31 -- So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.