Porcius Festus
Porcius Festus († 62 AD ) was a Roman knight who was in command in Judea from 60 to 62 AD .
It is unclear whether Festus, as praefectus, was subordinate to the governor of Syria , or whether he can be regarded as the presidential procurator of an independent province of Judea . The peace efforts during his tenure were unsuccessful. Because from the summer of 62 under Festus' successor Lucceius Albinus , the anti-Roman forces in Judea increased again.
As the biblical narrative in the Acts of the Apostles reports, Festus did not know what to do with the apostle Paul , who had been taken into protective custody by his predecessor Marcus Antonius Felix , and finally left it to the Jewish king Herod Agrippa II to find out what happened to this mysterious one Jesus Christ upon him. When Paul appealed to the Roman emperor Nero , Festus sent him to Rome .
swell
- Flavius Josephus : De bello Iudaico , Greek / German, ed. and with an introduction and annotations by Otto Michel and Otto Bauernfeind, 3 vol., 1959–1969.
- Acts 25 : 13-26 EU
literature
- Werner Eck : Porcius II, 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 163.
- Klaus Bringmann : History of the Jews in Antiquity. From the Babylonian exile to the Arab conquest . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94138-X , p. 238 and p. 245.
- Ute Schall : The Jews in the Roman Empire . Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7917-1786-3 , p. 199.
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| SURNAME | Festus, Porcius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prefect of Judea |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 62 |