books.google.com - The Ituraeans, a little-known people of late first century BCE Syria/Palestine, are referred to briefly in a number of early texts, notably Pliny, Strabo and Josephus, and the principality of Ituraea is mentioned in Luke 3.1. There is, as yet, no consensus among archaeologists as to whether certain artefacts...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ituraeans_and_the_Roman_Near_East.html?id=-cRrGQ8bIAkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Ituraeans and the Roman Near East