Cumanus

Family: Roman · Role: procurator · First appears: Book II, Chapter 12

After the death of Herod, Claudius appointed Agrippa to his uncle’s kingdom and made Cumanus procurator of the remaining Roman province, where he succeeded Alexander. At the feast of unleavened bread in Jerusalem, unrest at the temple led to a stampede in which ten thousand Jews were killed.

At Cesarea and Lydda, Ummidius Quadratus crucified those Cumanus had taken alive and beheaded eighteen Jews involved in the fighting. Quadratus then ordered Cumanus and Celer to sail to Rome to account for what had happened to Caesar (murdered ruler). There, Caesar (murdered ruler) condemned the Samaritans, banished Cumanus, and sent Celer to Jerusalem for execution.

Relationship record

Life events

• Claudius appointed Agrippa king and Cumanus procurator, succeeding Alexander.(Book II, Chapter 12)
  • With: Claudius Agrippa (the present king) Alexander (unresolved ch045)
  • “Now after the death of Herod, king of Chalcis, Claudius set Agrippa, the son of Agrippa, over his uncle's kingdom, while Cumanus took upon him the office of procurator of the rest, which was a Roman province, and therein he succeeded Alexander;”
• A stampede during the temple unrest killed ten thousand Jews.(Book II, Chapter 12 · 📍 Jerusalem)
  • “and being beaten out of the temple, they ran into the city; and the violence with which they crowded to get out was so great, that they trod upon each other, and squeezed one another, till ten thousand of them were killed”
• Quadratus crucified Cumanus’s captives and beheaded eighteen Jews involved in the fighting.(Book II, Chapter 12 · 📍 Cesarea and Lydda)
  • With: Ummidius Quadratus
  • “After which he went to Cesarea, and crucified all those whom Cumanus had taken alive; and when from thence he was come to the city Lydda, he heard the affair of the Samaritans, and sent for eighteen of the Jews, whom he had learned to have been concerned in that fight, and beheaded them;”
• Caesar condemned the Samaritans, banished Cumanus, and ordered Celer’s execution in Jerusalem.(Book II, Chapter 12 · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Caesar (murdered ruler) Celer
  • “he condemned the Samaritans, and commanded that three of the most powerful men among them should be put to death; he banished Cumanus, and sent Celer bound to Jerusalem, to be delivered over to the Jews to be tormented; that he should be drawn round the city, and then beheaded.”

Book II, Chapter 12

• with Ummidius Quadratus (Quadratus ordered Cumanus to report to Caesar.) “He also ordered that Cumanus [the procurator] and Celer the tribune should sail to Rome, in order to give an account of what had been done to Caesar.”
• with Claudius (interaction) “He banished Cumanus”
• with Alexander (unresolved ch045) (Cumanus succeeded Alexander as procurator.) “and therein he succeeded Alexander”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.