Ananel (sources)

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Josephus, Antiquitates

Ant XV 2 4 -- (Herod) also did other things, in order to secure his government, which yet occasioned a sedition in his own family; for being cautious how he made any illustrious person the high priest of God, he sent for an obscure priest out of Babylon, whose name was Ananelus, and bestowed the high priesthood upon him.

Ant XV 2 5 -- However, Alexandra, the daughter of Hyrcanus, and wife of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus the king, who had also brought Alexander [two] children, could not bear this indignity. Now this son was one of the greatest comeliness, and was called Aristobulus; and the daughter, Mariamne, was married to Herod

Ant XV 2 7 -- (When) his wife Mariamne lay vehemently at him to restore the high priesthood to her brother... (Herod claimed) that he formerly set up Ananelus, because Aristobulus was then so very young a child. Now when he had said this, not at random, but as he thought with the best discretion he had, in order to deceive the women...

Ant XV 3 1 -- So king Herod immediately took the high priesthood away from Ananelus, who, as we said before, was not of this country, but one of those Jews that had been carried captive beyond Euphrates; for there were not a few ten thousands of this people that had been carried captives, and dwelt about Babylonia, whence Ananelus came. He was one of the stock of the high priests and had been of old a particular friend of Herod; and when he was first made king, he conferred that dignity upon him, and now put him out of it again, in order to quiet the troubles in his family, though what he did was plainly unlawful, for at no other time [of old] was any one that had once been in that dignity deprived of it. It was Antiochus Epiphanes who first broke that law, and deprived Jesus, and made his brother Onias high priest in his stead. Aristobulus was the second that did so, and took that dignity from his brother (John Hyrcanus II); and this Herod was the third, who took that high office away (from Ananelus), and gave it to this young man, Aristobulus, in his stead.

Ant XV 3 3 -- ...And thus was Aristobulus murdered, having lived no more in all than eighteen years, (7) and kept the high priesthood one year only; which high priesthood Ananelus now recovered again...

Mishnah

Parah III 5 -- If they did not find the residue of the ashes of the seven (red cows), they performed the sprinkling with those of six, of five, of four, of three, of two, or of one, and who prepared these? Moses prepared the first, Ezra prepared the second, and five were prepared since Ezra; so R. Meir. But the Sages stated; Seven were prepared since the days of Ezra. And who prepared them? Simon the Just and Johanan the High Priest prepared the Eliehoenai the son of the ha-kof and Hanameel the Egyptian and Ishmael ben Phiabi prepared one each.