Edom

As is clear from the cuneiform and Idumaean evidence, the date formulas with Antigonus' name were firmly established in the regions ruled by Antigonus.

Reading in her programme notes the opening line of Mallarme's poem, 'Je t'apporte l'enfant d'une nuit d'Idumee!', (25) the woman sitting next to Duncan at the ballet turns and asks: '"Who is the child of Idumaean night?"'.

Ernst Bammel has pointed out that central to Herod's policy was his own inability, as an Idumaean and hence not even a member of an ordinary Jewish priestly family, to take to himself the high priesthood:(101)

82 Similarly, Thompson concludes from the onomastic evidence that the Idumaean settlers at Memphis were "hellenized" (i.e., had come to use Greek for most purposes) in three generations: D.

Sitting in the audience, Duncan is accosted by the woman sitting next to him, who draws his attention to the word "Idumaean" ("l'enfant d'une nuit Idumee" [151]) in the Mallarme text upon which the Boulez composition is based.

With the publication in 1996 of a large number of Idumaean ostraca, a new source of information on early Hellenistic chronology has appeared.

V/2: "Idumaean Music and Jewish Temple Trumpets." A wall painting from the Hellenistic site of Maresha showed trumpeters amid horsemen and animals at the time of its discovery in 1902.

There were Samaritans, Idumaeans, Roman veterans who had settled there, foreign businessmen, Greek descendants from Alexander's veterans, and various kinds of Jews.

The Hasmonaean state smoothly folded both the Idumaeans and the Ituraeans into the Jewish people.

Such an increase can be explained by the supposition that Jews actively welcomed large numbers of converts, mostly by the activities described above, but also by force in two unusual cases, the conversion of the Idumaeans (see Josephus, Antiquities 13, 257-258) and the Ituraeans (see Josephus, Antiquities 13.319).