HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA originally inhabited by the Canaanites

originally inhabited by the Canaanites

After the capture of Jerusalem

which provided the bullion

describes her mother lighting candles and reciting the blessing

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA originally inhabited by the CanaanitesDuring the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus