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subject	book bibliographic info
coponius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 42, 206 Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 62, 63 Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 563, 565

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1 validated results for "coponius"

1. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.117-2.118 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Coponius

Found in books: Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 63; Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 563, 565

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2.117 Τῆς δὲ ̓Αρχελάου χώρας εἰς ἐπαρχίαν περιγραφείσης ἐπίτροπος τῆς ἱππικῆς παρὰ ̔Ρωμαίοις τάξεως Κωπώνιος πέμπεται μέχρι τοῦ κτείνειν λαβὼν παρὰ Καίσαρος ἐξουσίαν.' "^2.118 ἐπὶ τούτου τις ἀνὴρ Γαλιλαῖος ̓Ιούδας ὄνομα εἰς ἀπόστασιν ἐνῆγε τοὺς ἐπιχωρίους κακίζων, εἰ φόρον τε ̔Ρωμαίοις τελεῖν ὑπομενοῦσιν καὶ μετὰ τὸν θεὸν οἴσουσι θνητοὺς δεσπότας. ἦν δ' οὗτος σοφιστὴς ἰδίας αἱρέσεως οὐδὲν τοῖς ἄλλοις προσεοικώς."' None

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2.117 1. And now Archelaus’s part of Judea was reduced into a province, and Coponius, one of the equestrian order among the Romans, was sent as a procurator, having the power of life and death put into his hands by Caesar. ^2.118 Under his administration it was that a certain Galilean, whose name was Judas, prevailed with his countrymen to revolt, and said they were cowards if they would endure to pay a tax to the Romans and would after God submit to mortal men as their lords. This man was a teacher of a peculiar sect of his own, and was not at all like the rest of those their leaders.'' None

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