Palaestina Prima
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Palaestina Prima or Palaestina I was a Byzantine province that existed from the late 4th century until the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s, in the region of Palestine. It included the histor
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Arthur Szyk. Visual History of Nations, Israel, New Canaan, CT
Jerome
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Jerome of Stridon, also known as Hieronymus, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.
Palaestina Prima
…Written sources from the Byzantine period describe Ascalon and Gaza as important commercial hubs that exported wine to many places throughout the empire. Jerome points out that the region was home to numerous monastic settlements at the time and had a landscape dotted with vineyards. The church may have been a…
Saint Jerome by Matthias Stom, 1635
St. Jerome in His Study (1480), by Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Jerome in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
St. Jerome in the Desert, by Giovanni Bellini (1505)