Herod Agrippa II
Agrippa II (AD 27–100), son of Agrippa I, and like him originally named Marcus Julius Agrippa. He was the brother of Berenice and Drusilla (second wife of the Roman procurator Antonius Felix). He is sometimes mistakenly called Herod Agrippa II.
Having grown up in the court of the emperor Claudius, Agrippa inherited, on the death of his uncle Herod of Chalcis, the oversight of the Temple in 48; Claudius later invested him with the tetrarchy of Chalcis around 49/50. In 53, he was deprived of that kingdom by Claudius, who made him governor over the tetrarchy of Philip and Lysanias (Acts 25:13; 26:2, 7). During the First Jewish-Roman War of 66–73, Agrippa sent 2,000 men to support Vespasian, by which it appears that, although a Jew in religion, he was yet entirely devoted to the Romans. He died at Rome in the third year of Trajan.
Agrippa II was the seventh and last king of the family of Herod the Great. It was before him and his sister Berenice that Paul of Tarsus pleaded his cause at Caesarea Palaestina (Acts 26), in 59. Agrippa II supplied Josephus with information for his history.
Roman procurators
Procurators appointed by Claudius to rule Judea after the death of Agrippa I in 44 included:
- Tiberius Alexander, from a Jewish patrician family from Egypt, and a nephew of Philo;
- Antonius Felix, an ex-slave freed by Claudius (52–60);
- Porcius Festus
- Albinus (62–64);
- Gessius Florus (64-66).
These procurators were "corrupt and cruel", helping to spark the Jewish Revolt of 66.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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