Philip and Antipas Reign as Tetrarchs

Josephus

The Jewish War 2.167–168

ca. 75

After Archelaus’ ethnarchy had been turned into a Roman province, the other two brothers, Philip and Herod Antipas, continued to administer their own tetrarchies. When Salome died she bequeathed her toparchy to Augustus’ wife Julia, together with Jamnia and the palm groves at Phasaelis. When the Roman principate passed to Julia’s son Tiberius on…

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Archelaus’ tenure lasted ten years. In 6 CE, Augustus removed him from office on the grounds of brutality and sheer ineptitude. At that point, Judaea and Samaria were absorbed directly into the Roman Empire and were ruled by Roman governors called prefects. Archelaus’ brothers, Philip and Antipas, retained their tetrarchies. Antipas took the dynastic name Herod and is referred to as “Herod the tetrarch” in the writings of Josephus and the New Testament.

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Josephus

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Flavius Josephus was born into a prominent Jewish priestly family and served as a general stationed in the Galilee during the First Jewish Revolt (66–73 CE). He was captured by the Romans and eventually integrated into the Flavian imperial aristocracy, who commissioned him to compose chronicles of the Jewish–Roman war and the history of the Jews. Josephus’ works, all written in Greek, include The Jewish War, Jewish Antiquities, Against Apion, and his autobiography, Life of Josephus. These writings provide important insights into the Judaisms of the Second Temple period and include one of the few surviving accounts of the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.

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