Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince of Jerusalem who is descended from a royal family of Judaea son of Ithamar enslaved by the Romans and freed by Quintus Arrius, a Roman warship commander, who also adopts Judah as his son. The Count of Monte Cristo was the inspiration for Ben-Hur the main character Edmond Dantes is falsely accused, escapes his imprisonment and seeks vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. The specific meaning of "Hur" is unclear among other possibilities, it may mean "something white" or "hollow or depressed ground". In the King James Version Bible, referring to Solomon's district leaders, he is mentioned as ".the son of Hur.", confirming he was 'Judah son of Hur'. Wallace wrote that he chose the name Ben-Hur "because it was biblical, and easily spelled, printed and pronounced." The name appears once in the Bible ( Hebrew: בן־חור), as the name of one of King Solomon's twelve district governors (1 Kings 4:8). Judah encounters Jesus Christ and becomes a Christian. The book covers the character's adventures and struggle against the Roman Empire as he tries to restore honor to his family's name after being falsely accused of attacking the Roman governor. Judah Ben-Hur, shortened to Ben-Hur, is a fictional character, the title character and protagonist from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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