HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA lighting the candles is known

lighting the candles is known as licht bentschen ("light davening") or licht tsinden ("light kindling")

possibly out of defiance of the Roman occupation

referred to as Tell el-Yahudiyeh Ware

000 square kilometers

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents

HEROD THE GREAT – BRONZE 8 PRUTAH – JUDAEA lighting the candles is knownDuring 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