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==Antipatris in Fiction== | ==Antipatris in Fiction== | ||
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*'''Antipatris''' / [[Moshe Kochavi]] / In: [[The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary]], 1:272-274 | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 24 January 2011
Antipatris (Pegai / Aphek) was a town in Judah.
Overview
The ancient Philistine and then Israelite town of Aphek was renamed Pegai ("springs") in Hellenistic times.
Herod the Great turned it into a town (Antipatris) in honor of his father Antipater.
The Acts of Apostles reports that Paul and his guards stopped for the night in fortified Antipatris on their way from Jerusalem to Caesarea Maritima.
The city was destroyed in 363 CE by an earthquake. It was later used as a fort by the Crusaders, Arabs and Turks.
Antipatris in ancient sources
Acts of Apostles
Acts 23:31 -- So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Antipatris in Scholarship
Antipatris in Fiction
Select Bibliography (articles)
- Antipatris / Moshe Kochavi / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary, 1:272-274
External links
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