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Agrippa II

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Agrippa (disambiguation)

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Agrippa II (b. AD 27

Year 27 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
/28

Year 28 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
), son of Agrippa I

Agrippa I

Agrippa I also called the Great , King of the Jews, was the grandson of Herod the Great, and son of Aristobulus IV and Berenice . His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa, and he is the king named Herod in the Acts of the Apostles, in the Bible, "Herod " ....
, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa, was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great

Herod the Great

Herod , also known as Herod I or Herod the Great , was a Roman Empire client state of Israel. Herod is known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world, including the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Herod's Temple....
, thus last of the Herodians

Herodians

The Herodians were a sect or party mentioned in the New Testament as having on two occasions ? once in Galilee, and again in Jerusalem ? manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus ....
. He was the brother of Berenice

Berenice of Cilicia

Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice , was a Jewish Client state of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century....
and Drusilla

Drusilla (daughter of Agrippa I)

Drusilla was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I and thus sister to Berenice , Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II....
(second wife of the Roman procurator Antonius Felix

Antonius Felix

Marcus Antonius Felix was the ancient Rome procurator of Iudaea Province 52-60, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus....
). He is sometimes also called Herod Agrippa II.

ppa was educated at the court of the emperor Claudius

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
, and at the time of his father's death was only seventeen years old.

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For other with this name, see Agrippa (disambiguation)
Agrippa (disambiguation)

Agrippa may refer to:...
.

Agrippa II (b. AD 27

Year 27 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
/28

Year 28 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
), son of Agrippa I

Agrippa I

Herod the Great

Herodians

Berenice of Cilicia

Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice , was a Jewish Client state of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century....
and Drusilla

Drusilla (daughter of Agrippa I)

Drusilla was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I and thus sister to Berenice , Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II....
(second wife of the Roman procurator Antonius Felix

Antonius Felix

Marcus Antonius Felix was the ancient Rome procurator of Iudaea Province 52-60, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus....
). He is sometimes also called Herod Agrippa II.

Life

Agrippa was educated at the court of the emperor Claudius

Claudius

Cuspius Fadus

Cuspius Fadus was the Roman procurator of Iudaea Province between 44 and 46. He is mentioned by Josephus.He was succeeded in 46 by Tiberius Julius Alexander....
as procurator

List of Kings of Judea

This page lists rulers of Judea and other related Jewish Kingdoms from the Maccabean Rebellion to the final Roman annexations....
of the kingdom, which thus again became a Roman province. While at Rome, he voiced his support for the Jews to Claudius, and against the Samaritan

Samaritan

The Samaritans , known in the Talmud as Cuthim , are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Ancestrally, they claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants who have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Common Era....
s and the procurator of Iudaea Province

Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
, Ventidius Cumanus

Ventidius Cumanus

Ventidius Cumanus was the Roman procurator of Iudaea Province from 48 to c. 52. A disagreement between the surviving sources, the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman Tacitus, makes it unclear whether his authority was over some or all of the province....
, who was lately thought to have been the cause of some disturbances there. On the death of Herod of Chalcis

Herod of Chalcis

File:Herold_of_Chalcis_coin_showing_Herod_of_Chalcis_with_brother_Agrippa_of_Judaea_crowning_Roman_Emperor_Claudius_I.jpgHerod of Chalcis , was a son of Aristobulus IV, and the grandson of Herod the Great, Roman client king of Iudaea Province....
(in 48

Year 48 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
), his small principality, with the right of superintending the Temple

Temple in Jerusalem

The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple , refers to a series of structures located on the Temple Mount in the old city of Jerusalem. Historically, two temples were built at this location, and a The Third Temple features in Jewish eschatology....
and appointing the high priest, was given to Agrippa. In 53

Year 53 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
, he was deprived of that kingdom by Claudius, who made him governor over the tetrarchy of Philip and Lysanias

Lysanias

Lysanias was the ruler of a small realm on the western slopes of Mount Hermon, attested to by the Jewish writer Josephus and in coins from circa 40 BC....
. Agrippa celebrated by marrying off his two sisters Mariamne

Mariamne (daughter of Herod Agrippa I)

Mariamne was a daughter of King Herod Agrippa I. She was betrothed by her father to Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes, first son of King Antiochus IV of Commagene, but this marriage had not yet been enacted upon her father's death....
and Drusilla

Drusilla (daughter of Agrippa I)

Drusilla was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I and thus sister to Berenice , Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II....
.

In 55

Year 55 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
, Nero added the cities of Tiberias

Tiberias

Tiberias is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius....
and Taricheae in Galilee

Galilee

Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa t...
, and Julias, with fourteen villages near it, in Peraea. Agrippa expended large sums in beautifying Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
and other cities, especially Berytus. His partiality for the latter rendered him unpopular amongst his own subjects, and the capricious manner in which he appointed and deposed the high priests made him an object of dislike to the Jews. Agrippa attempted in vain to dissuade his subjects from rebelling, and to tolerate the behavior of the Roman procurator

List of Kings of Judea

This page lists rulers of Judea and other related Jewish Kingdoms from the Maccabean Rebellion to the final Roman annexations....
Gessius Florus

Gessius Florus

Gessius Florus was the Roman Empire procurator of Iudaea Province from 64 until 66. Born in Clazomenae, Florus was appointed to replace Lucceius Albinus as promagistrate by the Roman Emperor Nero due to his wife's friendship with Nero's wife Poppaea Sabina....
, but in 66

Year 66 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
the Jews expelled him and Berenice

Berenice of Cilicia

Berenice of Cilicia, also known as Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice , was a Jewish Client state of the Roman Empire during the second half of the 1st century....
from the city. During the First Jewish-Roman War

First Jewish-Roman War

The first Jewish-Roman War , sometimes called The Great Revolt , was the first of three Jewish-Roman wars by the Jews of Iudaea Province against the Roman Empire ....
of 66–73, he sent 2,000 men, archers and cavalry, to support Vespasian

Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
, by which it appears that, although a Jew in religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. He accompanied Titus

Titus

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus , was a Roman Emperor who briefly reigned from 79 until his death in 81. Titus was the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Titus's father Vespasian , Titus himself and his younger brother Domitian ....
on some campaigns, and was wounded at the siege of Gamala. After the capture of Jerusalem, he went with his sister Berenice

Berenice of Cilicia

Praetor

Praetor was a Title#Titles_for_heads_of_state granted by the government of Ancient Rome to men acting in one of two official capacities: the commander of an army, either before it was mustered or more typically in the field, or an elected Magistratus assigned duties that varied depending on the historical period....
and rewarded with additional territory.

According to Photius, Agrippa died, childless, at the age of seventy, in the third year of the reign of Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
, that is, 100

100

Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
, but statements of Josephus

Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
in addition to the contemporary epigraphy

Epigraphy

Epigraphy is the study of wikt:inscriptions or wikt:epigraphs engraved into stone or other durable materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them....
from his kingdom cast this date into serious doubt. The modern scholarly consensus holds that he died before 93

Events...
/94

Year 94 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
. He was the last prince of the house of the Herods.

It was before him and his sister Berenice

Berenice of Cilicia

New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
, Paul the Apostle pleaded his cause at Caesarea Maritima, in 59

Year 59 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar....
.

He lived on terms of intimacy with the historian Josephus, having supplied him with information for his history, Antiquities of the Jews
Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews is a Jewish history, written in Greek language for Josephus' gentile patrons....
. Josephus preserved two of the letters he received from him.

Other sources

Yohanan Aharoni
Yohanan Aharoni

Yohanan Aharoni was born in Germany, June 7, 1919, and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He became the professor of archeology, chairman of the Department of Archeology and the Near East Studies and chairman of the Institute of Archeology at the University of Tel-Aviv....
& Michael Avi-Yonah, "The MacMillan Bible Atlas", Revised Edition, p. 156 (1968 & 1977 by Carta Ltd.).

External links

- Article in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith