- Queen of Galilee
A Nabataean was the Queen of Galilee during most of Jesus’ lifetime, with any best-guess window. Phaesalis was the long-standing wife of King Herod of Galilee before he marries Herodias, per Josephus.- King Herod
King Herod of Galilee’s lineage was 1/4 Nabataean paternally, 1/4 Idumean paternally, and 1/2 Samaritan maternally, via Malthace. So, not ethnically Jewish, as in no tribal lineage. Per Josephus, his g-grandfather converted to Judaism to keep his holdings when the Hasmoneans conquered the area.- King Herod Agrippa
Acts 12:1- It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.
This King Herod, unlike gLuke’s King Herod, is assumed to be King Herod Antipas’ brother, King Herod Agrippa. If the title of King was the everyday-person’s understanding of Herod Antipas’ and Herod Agrippa’s roles, then someone with royal lineage might have understood that though Herod the Great was long past, that his sons were still princes jockeying for eventual kingship. King Herod Agrippa eventually does receive the entire kingdom in 53 CE, after ascending in 40 CE. His wife has the Nabataean name, Cypros.- Herodian Dynasty
The female co-founder of the Herodian dynasty was Nabataean, and also named Cypros. A royal who marries the commoner Antipater the Idumean — a financial manager appointed procurator of Judaea in 43 BCE. He had been governor of Idumaea.
- Herod the Great Is their son. That makes Herod the Great half-Nabataean, half Idumean.
- Chuza
- Luke 8:3
- Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.
The financial manager Chuza has a classic Nabataean name per James McGrath in a guest blog on Dr. Bart Erhman’s site – https://ehrmanblog.org/did-paul-the-pharisee-learn-about-christianity-from-his-relative-the-apostle-junia-guest-post-by-james-mcgrath/ (In that, he surmises that Joanna is renamed to Junia the Apostle.)
- Jewish Babatha living in Nabataea
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/babathas-orchard-9780198767169?cc=us&lang=en&
A collection of personal documents hidden in 135 CE ahead of the Bar Kokhba Revolt by a Jewish woman living in the rural edge of the Nabataean kingdom, near Judaea Her father had moved from Ein Gedi. Ein Gedi being the wilderness around Qumran, and the DSS includes Nabataean Aramaic. But all of Cave 7’s micro-fragments were in Koine Greek, and some scholars see them as sources for the New Testament. 7Q5’s five lines were posited by a Jesuit priest to be Mark 6:52-6:52,
