Bible Review

The translation of kedashah as cult prostitute is no longer considered correct. See Elaine Adler Goodfriend, “Prostitution (OT),” in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992).

Developed in the 13th century, the Moralized Bible contains detailed illustrations of the biblical text accompanied by interpretative or “moralized” scenes commenting on the text.

Luke, for example, attributes Paul’s undignified departure from Damascus to Jewish hostility (Acts 9:23–25), whereas Paul himself tells us that the threat came from the Nabateans (2 Corinthians 11:32–33).

Josephus Antiquities 18:109–119

Josephus Antiquities 17:341

That is how Josephus reported them (Antiquities 18:117–19). The explanations of the Gospels and Josephus are not contradictory but complimentary; see in particular Harold Hoehner, Herod Antipas (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972), pp. 140–145.

The marriage of a woman with her nephew was also excluded (Leviticus 18:13); the Essenes logically inferred that a marriage between a man and his niece was thereby also condemned (Damascus Document 5:8–11).

See the genealogical chart in Ben Witherington III, “Herodias,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, David Noel Freedman, ed., vol. 3, p. 175.

C. Saulnier, “Herode Antipas et Jean le Baptiste. Quelques remarques sur les confusions chronologiques de Flavius Josephe,” Revue Biblique 91 (1984), pp. 362–376.