Judea (or Judaea) represented the historical southern kingdom inIsrael that included Jerusalem. Israel including its neighboringcounties in the Middle East are part of the con…tinent of Asia. Additionally You can think of ancient Judaea as modern "Palestine," today. (MORE)
Judea was the Roman name for the former kindom of Judah, centred on the city of Jerusalem. However, for administrative convenience, the Romans expanded the territory governed… as Judea, by including a great deal of additional territory. (MORE)
Answer Much of the reason for unrest in Judea and Galilee, during the period from the death of Herod until the second Jewish War, was the high taxation imposed on the far east…ern provinces, particularly during the reign of Nero. Nero exempted Greece from taxation, thus placing a heavier burden on the other provinces of the eastern empire. Also, many Jews resented foreign domination. Although the Pharisees accepted the Romans, they did not really dominate Jewish politics before 70 CE. After the destruction of the Temple, in 70 CE, many Jewish leaders and sects vied for power in the vacuum left by the demise of the old religious sects. (MORE)
Before Judea became a client state of the Romans in 63 BC.Thepeople of Judea had good relations with Rome. However, after it wasannexed into the Roman Empire in the 1st centur…y BC. The Romansruled the Jews. There was often a tense relationship between them.There were two Jewish revolts against the Romans: the FirstRoman-Jewish War (66-73) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135). Theserebellions cost the lives of many Jews. The 66 AD rebellion causedthe Temple in Jerusalem to be destroyed by the Romans. Thus thestrong animosity that permeated most of the relationship betweenancient Rome and Judea. was also the Kitos War (115-117) which wasa rebellion of Jews who lived in the Roman province of Cyrenaica,in eastern Libya. Answer: Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, the two sons of the Jewish King Yannai(Johanan Hyrcanus, 1st century BCE), got the Romans involved inJudea when they asked the Romans to settle a dispute. At first theRomans were cordial; and they actually became party to a militarytreaty with Judea (Talmud, Avodah Zara 9a). A couple of decadeslater, however, they unilaterally abrogated the treaty, and placedRoman governors over the land who afflicted the Jews with crushingtaxation (Talmud, Yoma 9a). In the first two centuries CE, thingsgot worse, with the Romans destroying the Second Temple andtemporarily outlawing Torah-observances, and the Jews attempting torevolt. The Romans destroyed large numbers of Jewish communities inthe Holy Land, and they killed some of the leading Jewish sages. (During those times that the Romans didn't interfere with theinternal life of the Jews, the reason was because the Romans wantedto receive their taxes. That, and making sure none of theircolonies planned rebellions, was usually the only thing that theRomans were really concerned about.) (MORE)
Bethany which is a village "about two miles" away from Jerusalem.Just as Capernaum was Jesus' home in Galilee (Mark 2:1), Bethanymight be called his home in Judea. It was the …"certain village"that Jesus visited during his later Judean ministry (approximatelyOctober to December, 32 C.E.), the location of the home of Martha,Mary, and Lazarus, who became beloved friends of Jesus. (Luke10:38) Here Jesus later performed the miracle of Lazarus'resurrection. (John 11:1, 38-44) (MORE)
After the Assyrians conquered ancient Israel in the First Templeera and exiled the Ten Israelite tribes, the Israelites whoremained in the land were (and are) mostly from the …Israelite tribeof Judah, and the land was therefore called Judea in the SecondTemple era. (MORE)