Judah Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur, or just Ben-Hur, is a fictional character from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
About
Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince of Jerusalem who is descended from a royal family of Judaea; son of Ithamar;[1] enslaved by the Romans and freed by Quintus Arrius, a Roman warship commander, who also adopts Judah as his son.[2] Judah later becomes a charioteer and follower of Christ. Messala is Judah's boyhood friend who becomes his rival later in the Sheik Ilderim's chariot at Antioch.[3][4] Esther becomes his wife and the mother of his children.[5]
Etymology
The name Ben-hur derives from the Hebrew for one of King Solomon's twelve district governors (1 Kings 4:8); it also means "Son of white linen."[6] When Wallace first introduces his readers to Judah, he is described as a seventeen-year-old youth wearing garments of "fine white linen."[7] Wallace chose the biblical name because it could be "easily spelled, printed, and pronounced."[8][9][10]
References
- ↑ Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 100 and 171
- ↑ Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 135, 160–62, and 166–67.
- ↑ Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 206 and 231.
- ↑ Morsberger and Morsberger, p. 303.
- ↑ Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 180 and 548.
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- ↑ Wallace, Ben-Hur (1880), p. 82.
- ↑ Wallace, An Autobiography, p. 936.
- ↑ Morsberger and Morsberger, p. 298.
- ↑ Miller, p. 155.
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