{"id":17319,"date":"2022-09-28T05:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/alexandrium\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T05:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:26:14","slug":"alexandrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/alexandrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandrium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alexandrium<\/h2>\n<p>(), a place frequently referred to by Josephus as having been originally built by Alexander (hence, doubtless, the name), apparently Jannaeus (Ant. 13:16, 3), on a hill near Coreae (q.v.), toward Jericho (Ant. 14, 3, 4); fortified by Alexander the son of Aristobulus (Ant. 14, 5, 2; War, 1, 8, 2), and demolished by Gabinius (Ant. 14, 5, 4; War, 1, 8, 5), but again restored by Herod (Ant. 14, 15, 4). It was the burial-place of the founder&#8217;s family, and here accordingly the bodies of Herod&#8217;s sons, Alexander and Aristobulus, were removed by night for interment (Ant. 16, 11, 7; War, 1, 17, 6). It has been identified by Schultz (Ritter, Erdk. 15, 452-454) as the modern village Kefr Istuna, about four miles S.E. of Shiloh, containing the ruins of an ancient castle built with very large stones (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 284).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandrium (), a place frequently referred to by Josephus as having been originally built by Alexander (hence, doubtless, the name), apparently Jannaeus (Ant. 13:16, 3), on a hill near Coreae (q.v.), toward Jericho (Ant. 14, 3, 4); fortified by Alexander the son of Aristobulus (Ant. 14, 5, 2; War, 1, 8, 2), and demolished by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/alexandrium\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alexandrium&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}