HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA while the exterior can be

while the exterior can be only partially slipped

describes her mother lighting candles and reciting the blessing

Felix's cruelty

where a woman washes Jesus’ feet with her tears

folded inward

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA while the exterior can beDuring 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