KING HEROD THE GREAT COIN Others have also been found

Others have also been found in Jordan

such as Beit Shean

followed by the division into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah

made from 100% olive wood and consisting of a total of 13 pieces

with more than five-thousand foot soldiers killed

KING HEROD THE GREAT COIN Others have also been foundDuring the rule of John Hyrcanus II (63 40 BCE), an Idumaean convert to Judaism Antipater was appointed by Julius Caesar as the de facto administrator of Judaea. Idumaeans were descendants of Esau, living in Edom, a country bordering Judaea in what is now southwest Jordan, between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. Antipater chose his younger son, Herod, who was still only a boy, as governor of Galilee. When the last Hasmonean king, Antigonus