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Revision as of 08:45, 7 October 2010
Gaza (modern Gaza, Gaza Strip) is a city on the Mediterranean coast.
History
Gaza was, like Ascalon and Azotus, a very old Philistine settlement, often recorded in ancient Jewish sources. It was with Tyre the strongest fortress along the coast. It was besieged and conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. It was under Ptolemaic and then Seleucid rule.
Alexander Jannaeus besieged Gaza around 96 BCE. According to Josephus, the inhabitants of Gaza requested help from Aretas II but the Nabatean king failed to come to the rescue and the city was destroyed.
The reconstruction of Gaza occurred only in the Roman period (around 61 BCE) by Gabinius. The city was under the rule of Herod the Great but after his death it was annexed once more to the province of Syria. It was attacked and sacked during the Jewish War and resurrected as a Roman colony afterward.
Gaza in ancient sources
Acts of Apostles
Acts 8:26 -- Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.
Josephus, Jewish War
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Gaza in Scholarship
Gaza in Fiction
Related categories
External links
References (articles)
- Gaza / The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987 Schurer / Vermes), book / 2 (1979) 98-103
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