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'''Antipatris (Pegai / Aphek) ''' was a town in Judah.
*DICTIONARY: see [[Antipatris]]
*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Antipatris (sources)]]


==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==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipatris Wikipedia]


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