Iturea (sources)

• DICTIONARY: see Iturea
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Overview

The Gospel of Luke offers the only reference in antiquity to the region of Iturea, while the people of the Ithureans is mentioned in Jewish and classical sources (Eupolemus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Josephus, and others).

Primary sources

Gospel of Luke

Luke 3:1 -- In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene...