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Ananias (III)

III. ANANIAS, a Jewish Merchant, who converted Izates, the Son of Monobazes, King of the Adiabenians, to Judaism1. Orosius2 will have it that Ananias was a Christian, and that Izates was made a convert to Christianity by him. See above ADIABENE. This conversion happened about the year of J.C. 41.

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  1. Joseph. Antiq. l. xx. c. 1. ↩

  2. Oros. l. vii. c. 6. ↩

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