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*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see [[:Category:Aretas I (subject)]]
 
 
'''Aretas I''' (2nd cent. BCE) was a Nabatean King.
 
See [[Nabatean Kings]]
 
==Overview==
 
Aretas I is the first known king of the [[Nabateans]]. His name is mentioned in the earliest Nabatean inscription discovered to date, a 168 BCE carving found in [[Halutza]]. 
 
According to 2 Maccabees (5:8), in 170 BCE Aretas I held prisoner [[Jason]], when the former High Priest fled from Jerusalem after his unsuccessful attempt to regain power against [[Menelaus]]. Jason, who had been "a fugitive into the land of Ammon" (2 Mac 4:26) since he had lost his power in 172 BCE, was now forced to leave the country for Egypt and Greece, where he died.
 
Aretas I was succeeded by [[Rabel I]] around 140 BCE.
 
==Aretas I in Scholarship==
 
==Aretas I in Fiction==
 
==Related categories==
*[[Jason]]
 
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretas_I Wikipedia]  




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