Galilean
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Generically, a Galilean is a term that was used in classical sources to describe the inhabitants of Galilee, a region today in northern Israel and much of southern Lebanon, that extends from the Medit
Mosaic from the 'Nile House' of Sepphoris, c. 2nd century CE.
Emperor and Galilean
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Emperor and Galilean is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. Although it is one of the writer's lesser known plays, on several occasions Henrik Ibsen called Emperor and Galilean his major work. Emperor and
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…he accuses the Galileans as being lazy, atheistic, superstitious, and their practices derivative of the Greeks. Henrik Ibsen used the term in his play Emperor and Galilean following Julian's goal of reestablishing the Roman religion and the tension between him and his own dynasty, who fictively claim Galilæan descent and…
Egil Eide as Julian in the 1903 Oslo premiere of Emperor and Galilean
Henrik Klausen as the mystic Maximus in the play's Oslo premiere (1903)
Julian the Apostate was the last pagan Roman emperor and tried in vain to suppress Christianity and bring the empire back to its ancient religion.
Ragna Wettergreen as Helena in the play's Oslo premiere (1903)