Antipatris (sources)

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Survey of ancient sources on Antipatris

Overview

Josephus' Works

Bellum Iudaicum

Bel I 99

Bel I 417

Bel II 513

Bel II 515

Bel II 554

Bel IV 443

Antiquitates Iudaicae

Ant XIII 390 -- Antiochus made an expedition against Judea... So Alexander, out of fear of his coming, dug a deep ditch, beginning at Chabarzaba, which is now called Antipatris, to the sea of Joppa...

Ant XVI 143 -- Herod erected another city in the plain called Capharsaba, where he chose out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness of soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the best trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater.

New Testament

Acts of Apostles

Acts 23:31 -- So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.