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• Julius

  Julius was a Roman army centurion mentioned in Acts 27. He was responsible for escorting Paul, then a prisoner, from Caesarea to Rome.

• Acts 27

  Acts 27 is the chapter in which Paul, being taken to Rome as a prisoner, encounters the tempestuous wind Euroclydon near Crete and drifts for fourteen days. Although the ship is wrecked, all 276 people aboard reach land alive.

• Julius Africanus

  Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240) was a Christian scholar of the early church in the third century. He wrote a chronicle that arranged world history according to biblical chronology, and he is known for explaining the differences between the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke by appeal to levirate marriage.

• Julius Wellhausen

  Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).

• Herod Agrippa I

  Herod Agrippa I was a grandson of Herod the Great and a king who ruled Judea in the first half of the first century. In Acts 12 he is called "Herod the king" and appears as the ruler who killed James the son of Zebedee and imprisoned Peter.

• Tiberius

  Tiberius, rendered "Diberyo" in the Korean Revised Version of the Bible, was the second emperor of the Roman Empire. His name appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1, where it serves as the reference point for dating the beginning of John the Baptist's ministry.

• Augustus

  Augustus (63 BC–AD 14) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire. He appears in Luke 2:1 as "Caesar Augustus," who issued the decree for the census, and he provides the historical backdrop for the account of Jesus' birth.

• Philo of Alexandria

  Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BC – c. AD 50) was a Jewish philosopher who interpreted the Pentateuch in light of Greek philosophy. Through his allegorical interpretation and his doctrine of the Logos, he influenced the biblical interpretation of the early Church Fathers. His name is also rendered Philon.

• Pax Romana

  The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace") refers to the roughly two hundred years, from the accession of Augustus (the "Caesar Augustus" of the Bible) to the late second century, during which the Roman Empire enjoyed relative stability.