Category:Azotus (subject)

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Azotus / Ashdod was a city close to the Mediterranean coast.

Overview

Azotus was, like Gaza and Ascalon, a very ancient and important settlement of the Philistines. It is often recorded in ancient Jewish sources and was known to Herodotus.

Nothing is known of the fate of the city in the early Second Temple Period. Judas attacked it and Jonathan Maccabeus destroyed it. At the time of Alexander Jannaeus its territory was annexed to the Hasmonean kingdom.

The city regained its autonomy under Pompey, together with the other coastal cities. Gabinius rebuilt it.

Azotus was then annexed to the kingdom of Herod the Great in 30 BCE, and after his death passed to his sister Salome I.

During the Jewish War, Vespasian established a garrison there.

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References

• Azotus / The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987 Schurer / Vermes), book / 2 (1979) 108-109

• Azotus / Paul L. Redditt / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary, 1:541-542

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