nabataea

When the last Nabataean king Rabbel II Soter died his kingdom was annexed. How and why the Nabataean kingdom was annexed is unclear, but there is evidence of minor military skirmishes. Aside from that there wasn't much resistance to the annexation. The Romans initially did not want to govern...

There's a lot of dispute about what happened to St. Paul after his "Damascus Road" experience. According to the Lukan account in Acts, he went to Jerusalem shortly after recovering his sight; however, St. Paul himself only speaks of his conversion once: in second Corinthians, and then he refers...