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Jesus
Mary
mother of Jesus Christ
Saint Peter
apostle of Jesus Christ
John the Baptist
1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)
Andrew the Apostle
religious figure of the Christian faith
Joseph
Christian saint; husband of Mary and father of Jesus
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu; ) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed Hasmonean royal ancestry.
Thomas the Apostle
Apostle of Jesus Christ
Evaristus
5th Pope of the Catholic Church from c. 99 to c. 107
Saint Stephen
Deacon, martyr, and saint
Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called '''''', was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
Barnabas
Barnabas (; ; ), born Joseph () or Joses (), was a prominent Christian disciple, identified as an apostle in Acts 14:14. According to Acts 4:36, he was a Cypriot Levite. He undertook missionary journeys as a companion of Paul the Apostle, evangelizing among the "God-fearing" Gentiles who attended synagogues in some of the Hellenized cities of Anatolia. He participated in the Council of Jerusalem ( AD).
Herod Antipas
1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea
James the Just
Jewish bishop of Jerusalem figure in Early Christianity
Joachim
Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part of the New Testament apocrypha. His feast day is 26 July, a date shared with Saint Anne.
Salome
Salome (; , related to , "peace"; ), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to Josephus, she was first married to her uncle Philip the Tetrarch, after the death of which in AD 34, she married her cousin Aristobulus of Chalcis, thus becoming queen of
Agrippa I
King of Judaea (11 BC-44 AD) (r. 41-44 AD)
Herod Archelaus
Ethnarch of Samaria/Judea/Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD
Nicolaus of Damascus
1st-century BC historian and philosopher
Agrippa II
king of Chalcis (Syria) from Herodian dynasty (28-100)
Herodias
Herodias (; ; c. 15 BC – after AD 39) was a princess of the Herodian dynasty of Judaea during the time of the Roman Empire. Christian writings connect her with the execution of John the Baptist.
Berenice
1st century CE member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea
Philip the Tetrarch
son of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)
Philip the Evangelist
Ancient Roman saint
Judas of Galilee
1st-century Jewish revolutionary
Herod II
son of Herod the Great of Judea and Mariamne II (c. 27 BC - 33/34 AD)
Salome I
politician
Thaddeus of Edessa
Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus
Elymas
Elymas (; ; ), also known as Bar-Jesus (, , ), is a figure described in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 13, where he is referred to as a mágos (μάγος), which the King James Bible translates as "sorcerer" and false prophet (ψευδοπροφήτης).
Herod of Chalcis
Roman client king of Chalcis in Iturea (ruled 41–48 AD)
Tiberius Julius Alexander
Roman governor and general
Theudas
Theudas (; ; died ) was a Jewish rebel of the 1st century AD. Scholars attribute to his name a Greek etymology and according to Thayer, is a contraction of Theodore, and Hitchcock, for his part, says it means "flowing with water" , although with a Hellenist-styled ending. At some point between 44 and 46 CE, Theudas led his followers in a short-lived revolt.
Drusilla
daughter of Herod Agrippa
Simon bar Giora
leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish–Roman War
Aristobulus of Chalcis
1st century AD King of Chalcis and Lesser Armenia
Jason of Thessalonica
Anatolian saint (Acts of the Apostles)
Caecilius of Calacte
Greek critic and rhetorician during the reign of Augustus
Helena of Adiabene
1st century AD queen of Adiabene and consort of Abgar V, King of Osrhoene
Aristobulus Minor
1st century prince from the Herodian Dynasty
Rabbi Ishmael
2nd century Mishnah rabbi
Sceva
Sceva () was a Jew called a "chief priest" in , although whether he was a chief priest is disputed by some writers. Although there was no high priest in Jerusalem by this name, some scholars note that it was not uncommon for some members of the Zadokite clan (Sons of Zadok) to take on an unofficial high-priestly role, which may explain this moniker. However, it is more likely that he was an itinerant exorcist based on the use of the Greek term () "going from place to place" used in in relation to his so-called "sons".
John of Giscala
Leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War
Pseudo-Philo
Pseudo-Philo is the name commonly used for the unknown, anonymous author of the Biblical Antiquities. This text is also commonly known today under the Latin title Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Book of Biblical Antiquities), a title that is not found in the Latin manuscripts. Although probably originally written in Hebrew, it is preserved today only through a Latin translation found in 18 complete and 3 fragmentary manuscripts that date between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE. In addition, material paralleling that in the Biblical Antiquities is also found in the Chronicles of Jerahmee
Menahem ben Judah
1st century CE Jewish Messiah claimant
Izates bar Monobaz
king of the Parthian client kingdom of Adiabene (c.1 CE-55 CE)
Eunice
mother of Timothy
Mary, mother of John Mark
Biblical character
Jesus Justus
one of several Jewish Christians in the church at Rome (Epistle to the Colossians)
Jesus ben Ananias
Farmer before the First Jewish-Roman War
Marcus Julius Alexander
Alexandrian Jewish merchant (16-44 CE)
Eleazar ben Simon
Zealot leader during the First Jewish-Roman War
Alexander
1st century AD Prince of Judea
Nicodemus ben Gurion
Figure in the Talmud and the New Testament
Lois
biblical figure mentioned in Timothy
Zenaida and Philonella
Eastern Orthodox saints
Ima Shalom
1st century CE wife of Eliezer ben Hurcanus, a Mishnaic sage, and sister of Rabban Gamaliel II
Athronges
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Monobaz II
1st century king of Adiabene
The Egyptian
messianic Jewish revolt leader
Joseph ben Gurion
Jewish leader during the First Jewish–Roman War (66-70 CE)