- Καισάρεια
- Καισάρεια, ας, ἡ (Καισαρία a wrong accent; s. W-S. §5, 13c end) Caesarea.① Καισάρεια ἡ Φιλίππου C. Philippi, a city at the foot of Mt. Hermon, once known as Paneas, rebuilt by Philip the Tetrarch and made an important city; he named it Caesarea in honor of Tiberius Caesar (Jos., Ant. 18, 28, Bell. 2, 168) Mt 16:13. αἱ κῶμαι Κ. τῆς Φ. are villages near the city Mk 8:27.—Schürer II 169–71 (sources and lit.); Dalman, Orte3 (index).② Καισάρεια without further designation is Caesarea ‘by the sea’ (Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 305; Jos., Bell. 7, 23 [here both Caesareas together]), located south of Mt. Carmel, founded by Herod the Great on the site of the ancient Straton’s Tower, named C. in honor of Augustus Caesar; later became the seat of the Roman procurators (Jos., Ant. 13, 313; 15, 293; 331ff; 19, 343, Bell. 1, 408–14, s. index). Ac 8:40; 9:30; 10:1, 24; 11:11; 12:19; 18:22; 21:8, 16; 23:23, 33; 25:1, 4, 6, 13.—Schürer II 115–18 (sources and lit.); LHaefeli, Caesarea am Meere 1923; CKopp, The Holy Places of the Gospels, tr. RWalls, ’63, 231–35; ANeger, Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land I, ’75, 270–85; BHHW I 295f; Kl. Pauly III 48f; OEANE I 399–404.—M-M.
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