Judæa

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See also: Judaea

English

Proper noun

Judæa

  1. Archaic spelling of Judea.
    • 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, pages 10– 11:
      If we consider his immense reputation for Hebrew learning, the atrocity of his character, and the strange machinations he set on foot, we may not unreasonably conjecture that the apocrypha of the School of Auditors were a fraud organized by Rabbi Akiba, the standard‐bearer of the anti‐Christ Bar‐Cochab in that fatal war which destroyed 50 cities, 980 villages, and 580000 souls, in Judæa.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      `The Romans burnt it, and the Roman eagles flew across its ruins, and now Judæa is a desert.'