BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION:
Full House: Idumaean Preeminence in the Court of Judaea
The power struggles among these Idumaean nobles, which probably originated long before the Hasmonean annexation, were no longer simply local fights between petty elites. Instead, they were transported from a local Idumaean context to the national stage of the Judaean royal court and the Roman Near East.
See Also: The Many Faces of Herod the Great (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2015)
By Adam Kolman Marshak
Gann Academy
Waltham, MA
February 2015