Ephesus welcoming more than one million every year, thanks to its modern cruise port, used to welcome even more people back in ancient times back in ancient times. Port of Ephesus used to be the most important income of Ephesus City in its golden times. Port of Ephesus was the...
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Judaism in Ephesus
Capital of Ionia, Asia Minor, and later, under the Romans, capital of Asia Proconsularis. Many Jews lived in this large Greek city during the whole of the Hellenistic period. Josephus (“Contra Ap.” ii. 4) traces the granting of citizenship to the Jews of Ephesus and of entire Ionia back to...
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Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four authors of canonical Gospels of Jesus Christ. Luke was a native of the Hellenistic city of Antioch in Syria. The Tomb of Saint Luke is located East of the State Agora. The New Testament mentions Luke briefly a few times,...
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