Geza Vermes - Whos Who in the Age of Jesus

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First published 2005
Published in paperback 2006
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Copyright Geza Vermes, 2005

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(Photographic acknowledgements are given in parentheses)

The principal primary source of Jewish history in the Graeco-Roman era is the work of the first-century CE historian Flavius Josephus, supplemented by the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as by Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. The relevant Christian evidence is borrowed from the New Testament and from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea.

While compiling the work, I regularly consulted the New English Schrer, the three volumes of The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 bcad 135) by Emil Schrer, revised and edited by Fergus Millar, Martin Goodman and myself (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh, 197387).

Dr Susan Walker, Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, kindly advised me in the domain of the Roman illustrative material, for which I am very grateful.

G.V.

Oxford, November 2004

POMPEY , Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (10648 BCE ); general and statesman

CAESAR , Caius Iulius Caesar (10044 BCE ), general and statesman

MARK ANTONY , Marcus Antonius ( c. 8330 BCE ), general and statesman

AUGUSTUS , Caius Iulius Caesar Octavianus (63 BCE 14 CE), EMPEROR (31 BCE 14 CE )

TIBERIUS , Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 BCE 37 CE ), emperor (1437 CE )

CALIGULA , Gaius Iulius Caesar Germanicus (1241 CE ), emperor (3741 CE)

CLAUDIUS , Claudius Tiberius Drusus (10 BCE 54 CE), emperor (4154 CE )

NERO , Claudius Caesar Germanicus Nero (1568 CE ), emperor (5468 CE )

VESPASIAN , Titus Flavius Vespasianus (979 CE ), emperor (6979 CE )

TITUS , Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus (39/4181 CE ), emperor (7981 CE )

DOMITIAN , Titus Flavius Domitianus (5196 CE), emperor (8196 CE )

NERVA , Marcus Cocceius Nerva (3098 CE ), emperor (9698 CE)

TRAJAN , Marcus Ulpius Traianus (53117 CE ), emperor (98117 CE )

HADRIAN , Publius Aelius Hadrianus (76138 CE ), emperor (117138 CE )

HASMONAEANS

Judas Aristobulus II (6763 BCE )

John Hyrcanus II (6340 BCE )

Matthias Antigonus (4037 BCE )

HERODIANS

Herod the Great (40/374 BCE )

Archelaus (4 BCE 6 CE )

Antipas (4 BCE 39 CE )

Philip (4 BCE 33/4 CE )

Agrippa 1 (37, 40, 4144 CE )

Herod of Chalcis (4148 CE )

Agrippa II (50 c. 92/3 CE )

ADIABENE

Izates ( c. 3560 CE )

Coponius (69 CE )

Marcus Ambivulus (912 CE )

Annius Rufus (1215 CE )

Valerius Gratus (1526 CE )

Pontius Pilate (2636 CE )

Marcellus (36/7 CE )

Marullus (3741 CE )

Cuspius Fadus (4446 CE )

Tiberius Julius Alexander (4648 CE )

Ventidius Cumanus (4852 CE )

Antonius Felix (5260 CE )

Porcius Festus (6062 CE )

Lucceius Albinus (6264 CE )

Gessius Florus (6466 CE )

Sextus Vettulenus Cerialis (7072 CE )

Lucilius Bassus (723 CE )

Lucius Flavius Silva (73/481 CE )

Atticus ( c. 99/100102/3 CE )

Quintus Roscius Coelius Pompeius Falco ( c. 105107 CE )

Lusius Quietus ( c. 117 CE )

Quintus Tineius Rufus (132 CE )

Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (6562 BCE )

Aulus Gabinius (5755 BCE )

Caius Sosius (3837 BCE )

Publius Quinctilius Varus 7/64 BCE )

Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (6 CE )

Publius Petronius (3941/2 CE )

Lucius Vitellius (3539 CE )

Cestius Gallus (6366/7 CE )

Lucius Iunius Annaeus Gallio (5153 CE )

HASMONAEAN HIGH PRIESTS (6337 BCE )

Hyrcanus II (7667 BCE , 6340 BCE )

Aristobulus II (6763 BCE )

Antigonus (4037 BCE )

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY HEROD (374 BCE )

Ananel (3736, 34? BCE )

Aristobulus III (35 BCE )

Jesus son of Phiabi (?)

Simon son of Boethus (245 BCE )

Matthias son of Theophilus (54 BCE )

Joseph son of Ellem (4 BCE )

Joazar son of Boethus (4 BCE )

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY ARCHELAUS (4 BCE 6 CE )

Eleazar son of Boethus (4 BCE ?)

Jesus son of See (?)

Joazar (?6 CE )

HIGH PRIEST APPOINTED BY QUIRINIUS (6 CE )

Ananus or Annas son of Sethi (615 CE )

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY VALERIUS GRATUS (1526 CE )

Ismael son of Phiabi (1516 CE )

Eleazar son of Ananus (1617 CE )

Simon son of Kamithus (1718 CE )

Joseph Caiaphas (1836 CE )

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY VITELLIUS (3539 CE )

Jonathan son of Ananus (3637 CE )

Theophilus son of Ananus (37? CE )

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY AGRIPPA I (4144 CE )

Simon Cantheras son of Boethus (41? CE )

Matthias son of Ananus (?)

Elionaeus son of Cantheras (?)

HIGH PRIESTS APPOINTED BY HEROD OF CHALCIS (4448 CE )