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| | Judea - Crystalinks |
 | | Judea, Judaea, or the Kingdom of Judea ( Judea means ' P r a i s e and in S t a n d a r d H e b r e w , Yahuda) is a term used for the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel, an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank, and, in a few geographical definitions of Judea, Jordan. |
 | | Judea is central to much of the narrative of the Torah, with the Patriarch Abraham said to have been buried at Hebron in the Tomb of the Patriarchs. |
 | | In historic times, Judea was ruled by the Kingdom of Judah and later by the Kingdom of Judea, a client-kingdom of the Seleucid dynasty of Persia. |
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