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subject	book bibliographic info
gerasa	Bricault et al. (2007), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 450 Eliav (2023), A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean, 87 Goodman (2006), Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays, 151 Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021), Benefactors and the Polis: The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity, 316, 317, 318 Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 31, 33, 35 Lampe (2003), Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Valentinus, 31 Mitchell and Pilhofer (2019), Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: From the Margins to the Mainstream, 241 Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 265 Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 43 Spielman (2020), Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World. 93, 103, 104, 105, 179 Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 85 de Ste. Croix et al. (2006), Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy, 334 van Maaren (2022), The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE, 113, 125, 174
gerasa, jerash	Faßbeck and Killebrew (2016), Viewing Ancient Jewish Art and Archaeology: VeHinnei Rachel - Essays in honor of Rachel Hachlili, 272, 273, 275
gerasa, nicomachus of	Bianchetti et al. (2015), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition, 44 Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 235 Horkey (2019), Cosmos in the Ancient World, 25, 34 Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 5, 6, 59 Motta and Petrucci (2022), Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity, 188 Wardy and Warren (2018), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, 200
gerasa, synagogue replaced by a church at genoa	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 13, 273, 296

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "gerasa"

1. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 13.393 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Gerasa

Found in books: Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 85; van Maaren (2022), The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE, 113

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13.393 ̓Αλέξανδρος δ' ἐλάσας αὖθις ἐπὶ Δίαν πόλιν αἱρεῖ ταύτην, καὶ στρατεύσας ἐπὶ ̓́Εσσαν, οὗ τὰ πλείστου ἄξια Ζήνωνι συνέβαινεν εἶναι, τρισὶν μὲν περιβάλλει τείχεσιν τὸ χωρίον, ἀμαχὶ δὲ λαβὼν τὴν πόλιν ἐπὶ Γαύλαναν καὶ Σελεύκειαν ἐξώρμησεν."" None

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13.393 3. But Alexander marched again to the city Dios, and took it; and then made an expedition against Essa, where was the best part of Zeno’s treasures, and there he encompassed the place with three walls; and when he had taken the city by fighting, he marched to Golan and Seleucia;'' None

2. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 1.104, 2.480 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Gerasa

Found in books: Goodman (2006), Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays, 151; Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 85; van Maaren (2022), The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE, 113, 174

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1.104 ̓Αλέξανδρος δὲ Πέλλαν ἑλὼν ἐπὶ Γέρασαν ᾔει πάλιν τῶν Θεοδώρου κτημάτων γλιχόμενος, καὶ τρισὶ τοὺς φρουροὺς περιβόλοις ἀποτειχίσας διὰ μάχης τὸ χωρίον παραλαμβάνει.' ' None

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1.104 But Alexander, when he had taken Pella, marched to Gerasa again, out of the covetous desire he had of Theodorus’s possessions; and when he had built a triple wall about the garrison, he took the place by force.' ' None

3. New Testament, Mark, 5.1-5.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Gerasa

Found in books: Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 43; de Ste. Croix et al. (2006), Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy, 334

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5.1 Καὶ ἦλθον εἰς τὸ πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς τὴν χώραν τῶν Γερασηνῶν. ^5.2 καὶ ἐξελθόντος αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ πλοίου εὐθὺς ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ ἐκ τῶν μνημείων ἄνθρωπος ἐν πνεύματι ἀκαθάρτῳ, ^5.3 ὃς τὴν κατοίκησιν εἶχεν ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι οὐδεὶς ἐδύνατο αὐτὸν δῆσαι ^5.4 διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν πολλάκις πέδαις καὶ ἁλύσεσι δεδέσθαι καὶ διεσπάσθαι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς ἁλύσεις καὶ τὰς πέδας συντετρίφθαι, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἴσχυεν αὐτὸν δαμάσαι· ^5.5 καὶ διὰ παντὸς νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἦν κράζων καὶ κατακόπτων ἑαυτὸν λίθοις. ^5.6 καὶ ἰδὼν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπὸ μακρόθεν ἔδραμεν καὶ προσεκύνησεν αὐτόν, ^5.7 καὶ κράξας φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγει Τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί, Ἰησοῦ υἱὲ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου; ὁρκίζω δε τὸν θεόν, μή με βασανίσῃς. ^5.8 ἔλεγεν γὰρ αὐτῷ Ἔξελθε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀκάθαρτον ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. ^5.9 καὶ ἐπηρώτα αὐτόν Τί ὄνομά σοι; καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ Λεγιὼν ὄνομά μοι, ὅτι πολλοί ἐσμεν· ^5.10 καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτὸν πολλὰ ἵνα μὴ αὐτὰ ἀποστείλῃ ἔξω τῆς χώρας.'' None

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5.1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. ^5.2 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, ^5.3 who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, ^5.4 because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him. ^5.5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. ^5.6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him, ^5.7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don\'t torment me." ^5.8 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" ^5.9 He asked him, "What is your name?"He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ^5.10 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country. '' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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