Judean

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• At four o'clock in the morning, the winds of the Judean desert rattle the windows of Zvi Anosh's trailer.

  Academic text (1996)

• I had gone to the ritual bath late, as the sun began to set behind the Judean hills.

  Academic text (1995)

• These are Judean graves.

  Ben-Hur (2016)

• Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem... and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary... to comfort them about their brother's death.

  The Gospel of John (2003)

• But John may have reckoned according to the Judean method (beginning the day at sunset), a system used by the Sadducees.

  Blog text (9)

• When you walk around there, you feel you are walking where the biblical prophets Jeremiah, Yeshayahu, or the Judean kings walked.

  Academic text (2010)

• At 4 a.m., in the quiet stillness of a Sabbath morning in the Judean hills, Shoshana's contractions had begun.

  Fiction book (1995)

• In the seventh year of the reign of Augustus Caesar... ...an imperial decree ordered every Judean... ...each to return to his place of birth... ...to be counted and taxed.

  Ben-Hur (1959)

• In the more popular account of the apostle Luke, Joseph and a very pregnant Mary traveled more than 90 miles from their residence in Nazareth to Joseph's Judean hometown of Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census.

  Academic text (2005)

• During ancient times, many Judean traders traveled to far-off lands in search of goods.

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