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Valerius Gratus was Roman Prefect
Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa....
 or procurator of Judea
Judea

Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
 under Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, AD 15
15

Year 15 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
 - 26
26

Year 26 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
. He succeeded Annius Rufus
Annius Rufus

Annius Rufus succeeded Marcus Ambivulus as Prefect of Judea in 12 CE. His tenure was apparently without incident since the only event that Josephus reports as occurring while he was in office is the death of Augustus in Rome in 14 CE....
 and was replaced by Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate was the Roman_governor#Equestrian_procurator of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from the year AD 26 until AD 36. He is typically known as the sixth Procurator of Judea, but some sources cite him as the fifth....
.

The government of Gratus is chiefly remarkable for the frequent changes he made in the appointment of the high-priesthood
Kohen Gadol

Kohen Gadol or Kohen ha-Gadol is the title of wiktionary:High Priest of early Israelite religion and of Classical Age Judaism from the rise of the Israelite nation until the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem....
. He deposed Ananus
Annas

Annas , son of Seth, was a Judaism List of High Priests of Israel from AD 6 to 15 and remained an influential leader afterwards.Annas was appointed High Priest in AD 6 by the Roman legate Quirinius just after the Romans had deposed Herod Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under Roman rule as part of Iudaea Provin...
, and substituted Ismael, son of Fabi, then Eleazar, son of Arianus, then Simon, son of Camith, and lastly Joseph Caiaphas
Caiaphas

Yosef Bar Kayafa , also known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Roman Empire-appointed Judaism List of High Priests of Israel between AD 18 and 37....
, the son-in-law of Ananus.








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Valerius Gratus was Roman Prefect
Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.A prefect's office, department, or area of control is called a prefecture, but in various post-Roman cases there is a prefect without a prefecture or vice versa....
 or procurator of Judea
Judea

Judea or Jud?a is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank ....
 under Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, AD 15
15

Year 15 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
 - 26
26

Year 26 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
. He succeeded Annius Rufus
Annius Rufus

Annius Rufus succeeded Marcus Ambivulus as Prefect of Judea in 12 CE. His tenure was apparently without incident since the only event that Josephus reports as occurring while he was in office is the death of Augustus in Rome in 14 CE....
 and was replaced by Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate was the Roman_governor#Equestrian_procurator of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from the year AD 26 until AD 36. He is typically known as the sixth Procurator of Judea, but some sources cite him as the fifth....
.

The government of Gratus is chiefly remarkable for the frequent changes he made in the appointment of the high-priesthood
Kohen Gadol

Kohen Gadol or Kohen ha-Gadol is the title of wiktionary:High Priest of early Israelite religion and of Classical Age Judaism from the rise of the Israelite nation until the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem....
. He deposed Ananus
Annas

Annas , son of Seth, was a Judaism List of High Priests of Israel from AD 6 to 15 and remained an influential leader afterwards.Annas was appointed High Priest in AD 6 by the Roman legate Quirinius just after the Romans had deposed Herod Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under Roman rule as part of Iudaea Provin...
, and substituted Ismael, son of Fabi, then Eleazar, son of Arianus, then Simon, son of Camith, and lastly Joseph Caiaphas
Caiaphas

Yosef Bar Kayafa , also known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Roman Empire-appointed Judaism List of High Priests of Israel between AD 18 and 37....
, the son-in-law of Ananus.

In popular culture

In the book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and further films Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur

Lew Wallace novel...
, Gratus is almost accidentally killed by a falling tile caused by Tirzah Ben-Hur, which prompted the whole events of the story.

See also

  • Roman Procurator coinage
    Roman Procurator coinage

    Roman Procurator coinage were coins issued by the Roman Empire List_of_Kings_of_Judea#Roman_Procurators and Prefect#Ancient_Rome of the province of Judea between 6 - 66 AD....


Bibliography

  • 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....
     - Antiq. xviii. 6. § 5.