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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1681789, member: 42773"]<b>Aretas, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist</b></p><p><br /></p><p>By 60 BC, the Nabataean Kingdom had grown to encompass a substantial amount of territory, with trade routes covering the entire Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the Syrian.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s13.postimg.org/m8hemjerr/map.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> During the reign of Aretas IV, the Nabataeans achieved their pinnacle of cultural and economic development. Generally maintaining a position of neutrality for the sake of trade, relations with neighbors were mostly good. However, a number of skirmishes with the Judaeans compelled Aretas to marry his daughter Phasaelis to Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great. This relieved tensions for a while, until Herod Antipas fell in love with his brother's wife Herodias in AD 27, and divorced Phasaelis for her sake. This is the soap opera that John the Baptist denounces in Mark 6, thereby earning a lost head.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Caravaggio's <b><i>Salome with the Head of John the Baptist </i></b>(c. 1607/1610)...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s11.postimg.org/6mal12ub7/john.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>John the Baptist wasn't the only one outraged at Herod Antipas' treachery. When Phasaelis returned to her father a spurned wife, he was equally incensed, and promptly set out with his armies to give the Judaeans a good trouncing. He managed to do it too, but before the Nabataeans could overrun all of Judaea, the police showed up (read Romans) and broke up the party.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose I should post a coin, so here's one that circulated during the period of the aforementioned events. In 18 AD, Aretas IV married his second wife, Shuqailat, and she appears on small bronze issues in a jugate portrait with the king. The reverse has crossed cornucopiae with Aretas' name at the top, and Shuqailat's between and under the cornucopia. This is the most common typology among Nabataean coins - a vast number of these bronzes were minted during Aretas' reign, and the type would be taken up by the succeeding kings, Malichus II and Rabbel II...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s23.postimg.org/78gepelhn/both.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1681789, member: 42773"][b]Aretas, Herod Antipas, John the Baptist[/b] By 60 BC, the Nabataean Kingdom had grown to encompass a substantial amount of territory, with trade routes covering the entire Arabian Peninsula, and parts of the Syrian. [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s13.postimg.org/m8hemjerr/map.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] During the reign of Aretas IV, the Nabataeans achieved their pinnacle of cultural and economic development. Generally maintaining a position of neutrality for the sake of trade, relations with neighbors were mostly good. However, a number of skirmishes with the Judaeans compelled Aretas to marry his daughter Phasaelis to Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great. This relieved tensions for a while, until Herod Antipas fell in love with his brother's wife Herodias in AD 27, and divorced Phasaelis for her sake. This is the soap opera that John the Baptist denounces in Mark 6, thereby earning a lost head. Caravaggio's [B][I]Salome with the Head of John the Baptist [/I][/B](c. 1607/1610)... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s11.postimg.org/6mal12ub7/john.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] John the Baptist wasn't the only one outraged at Herod Antipas' treachery. When Phasaelis returned to her father a spurned wife, he was equally incensed, and promptly set out with his armies to give the Judaeans a good trouncing. He managed to do it too, but before the Nabataeans could overrun all of Judaea, the police showed up (read Romans) and broke up the party. I suppose I should post a coin, so here's one that circulated during the period of the aforementioned events. In 18 AD, Aretas IV married his second wife, Shuqailat, and she appears on small bronze issues in a jugate portrait with the king. The reverse has crossed cornucopiae with Aretas' name at the top, and Shuqailat's between and under the cornucopia. This is the most common typology among Nabataean coins - a vast number of these bronzes were minted during Aretas' reign, and the type would be taken up by the succeeding kings, Malichus II and Rabbel II... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s23.postimg.org/78gepelhn/both.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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