Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel
Vragen, overdenkingen en achtergronden over de Bijbel,
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
Merrill C. Tenney, Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, [1976], 708 "CANDACE"; The title of the queen of Ethiopia, whose treasurer was baptized between Jerusalem and Gaza by Philip the evangelist. By Ethiopia is meant the kingdom of Nubia in the N Sudan, whose capital was Meroë. Classical writers refer to several queens of Meroë in the 1st cet. zB.C. and the 1st cent. A.D. who had the title Candace, e.g. Strabo XVII. 1. 54; Cassius Dio LIV. 5. 4-6; Pliny, Natural History VI. 35. 186. The form in which this title is written with the names of queens in Meroitic inscr. is Kadake. The Candace of Acts was prob. Amantitere, who ruled about A.D. 25-41. She and her husband built or added to several Nubian temples, and her pyramid and tomb have been discovered in Meroë.
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], En hij stond op en ging heen; en ziet, een Moorman, [28]een kamerling, [en] een machtig heer van [29]Candace, de koningin der Moren, die over al haar schat was, welke was gekomen om [30]aan te bidden te Jeruzalem; 