Category:Antipatris (subject)

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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

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