1st-century people

1st-century Jewish itinerant preacher (Bible)

religious figure of the Christian faith

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.

Apostle of Jesus Christ

Deacon, martyr, and saint

Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called '''''', was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.

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).

1st century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea

Jewish bishop of Jerusalem figure in Early Christianity

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 (; , 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

King of Judaea (11 BC-44 AD) (r. 41-44 AD)

religious figure who confronted Peter

Ethnarch of Samaria/Judea/Idumea from 4 BC to 6 AD

king of Chalcis (Syria) from Herodian dynasty (28-100)

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.

1st century CE member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea

Ancient Roman saint

son of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)

1st-century Jewish revolutionary

son of Herod the Great of Judea and Mariamne II (c. 27 BC - 33/34 AD)

alt=|thumb|Thusnelda statue in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. thumb|The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by [[Benjamin West, 1773]] thumb|Hermann and Thusnelda (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein|Tischbein, 1822) alt=|thumb|241x241px|Thusnelda at the Roman triumph|Triumph of Germanicus, by [[Karl von Piloty, 1873]] thumb|Arminius says goodbye to Thusnelda, Johannes Gehrts (1884) Thusnelda (; 10 BC – after AD 17) was a Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania. She was the wife of Arminius. Tacitus and Strabo cite he

politician

Christian saint and one of the seventy disciples of Jesus

Roman client king of Chalcis in Iturea (ruled 41–48 AD)

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.

Iron Age bog body found in the Netherlands

thumb|Glaphyra from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum|Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Glaphyra (; ) was an Anatolian princess from Cappadocia, and a Queen of Mauretania by her second marriage to King Juba II of Mauretania. She was related to the Herodian dynasty by her first and third marriage, to Alexander, son of Herod and Herod Archelaus, respectively.

leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish–Roman War

1st century AD King of Chalcis and Lesser Armenia

Anatolian saint (Acts of the Apostles)

thumb|Statue of Veleda by Laurent Marqueste () thumb|"Veleda, prophetess of the Germans," by Juan Scherr (1882) Veleda () was a seeress of the Bructeri, a Germanic people who achieved some prominence during the Batavian rebellion of AD 69–70, headed by the Romanized Batavian chieftain Gaius Julius Civilis, when she correctly predicted the initial successes of the rebels against Roman legions.

Greek critic and rhetorician during the reign of Augustus

1st century AD queen of Adiabene and consort of Abgar V, King of Osrhoene

1st century prince from the Herodian Dynasty

daughter of Artavasdes I of Media Atropatene

Leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War

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

1st century CE Jewish Messiah claimant

Biblical character

The name Antiochis () is the female name of Antiochus.

mother of Timothy

one of several Jewish Christians in the church at Rome (Epistle to the Colossians)

Alexandrian Jewish merchant (16-44 CE)

Zealot leader during the First Jewish-Roman War

1st century CE wife of Eliezer ben Hurcanus, a Mishnaic sage, and sister of Rabban Gamaliel II

Roman noblewoman, daughter of Antiochus III of Commagene

biblical figure mentioned in Timothy

1st century AD Prince of Judea

Queen of Commagene, daughter of king Mithridates III

Eastern Orthodox saints

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messianic Jewish revolt leader

1st century king of Adiabene

first wife of Herod Antipas

Pharisee mentioned in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 7:36-50) as the host of a meal, who invited Jesus to eat in his house but failed to show him the usual marks of hospitality offered to visitors

1st century Babylonian Jewish chieftains

wife of Herod Agrippa

Queen of Emesa, daughter of Mithridates III, spouse of Sampsiceramus II

member of the Herodian dynasty during the 1st century AD