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LYSANIAS , See also:

tetrarch of Abilene (see AB1LA), according to See also:Luke iii. 1, in the See also:time of See also:John the Baptist. The only Lysanias mentioned in profane See also:history as exercising authority in this See also:district was executed in 36 B.C. by M. See also:Antonius (See also:Mark Antony). This Lysanias was the son of See also:Ptolemy Mennaeus, the ruler of an See also:independent See also:state, of which Abilene formed only a small portion. According to See also:Josephus (See also:Ant. xix. 5, 1) the See also:emperor See also:Claudius in A.D. 42 confirmed See also:Agrippa I. in the See also:possession of " See also:Abila of Lysanias " already bestowed upon him by Caligula, elsewhere described as " Abila, which had formed the tetrarchy of Lysanias." It is argued that this cannot refer to the Lysanias executed by M. Antonius, since his paternal See also:inheritance, even allowing for some curtailment by See also:Pompey, must have been of far greater extent. It is therefore assumed by some authorities that the Lysanias in Luke (A.D. 28–29) is a younger Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene only, one of the districts into which the See also:original See also:kingdom was split up after the See also:death of Lysanias I. This younger Lysanias may have been a son of the latter, and identical with, or the See also:father of, the Claudian Lysanias.

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hand, Josephus knows nothing of a younger Lysanias, and it is suggested by others that he really does refer to Lysanias I. The explanation given by M.. Krenkel (Josephus and See also:Lucas, See also:Leipzig, 1894, p. 97) is that Josephus does not mean to imply that Abila was the only possession of Lysanias, and that he calls it the tetrarchy or kingdom of Lysanias because it was the last remnant of the domain of Lysanias which remained under See also:direct See also:Roman See also:administration until the time of Agrippa. The expression was borrowed from Josephus by Luke, who wrongly imagined that Lysanias I. had ruled almost up to the time of the bestowal of his tetrarchy upon Agrippa, and therefore to the days of John the Baptist. Two See also:inscriptions are adduced as See also:evidence for the existence of a younger Lysanias—See also:Bockh, C.I.G.' 4521 and 4523. The former is inconclusive, and in the latter the See also:reading Avv[avcov] is entirely conjectural; the name might equally well be See also:Lysimachus or See also:Lysias. See E. Schiirer, Geschichte See also:des ji dischen Volkes (3rd ed., 1901), i. p. 712; and (especially on the inscriptional evidence) E. See also:Renan, Memoire sur la dynastic des Lysanias d'Abilene " in Memoires de l'institut imperial de See also:France (See also:xxvi., 1870); also P. W.

Schmiedel in the Encyclopaedia_Biblica, s.v.

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