Eliashib (sources)

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Survey of ancient sources on Eliashib.

Overview

Jewish sources

Ezra-Nehemiah

Neh 3:1,20-21 (NRSV) -- [1] The High Priest Eliashib set to work with his fellow priests and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set up its doors; they consecrated it as far as the Tower of Hananel. And the men of Jericho built next to him... [20] Baruch son of Zabbai repaired another section from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib. [21] After him Meremoth... repaired another section from the door of the House of Eliashib to the end of the House of Eliashib...

Neh 12:10 (NRSV) -- ...Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada... (see also 12:22).

Neh 13:4,7,28 (NRSV) --

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Ant XI 5:5 -- Esdras... died an old man, and was buried in a magnificent manner at Jerusalem. About the same time it happened also that Joachim, the high priest, died; and his son Eliashib succeeded in the high priesthood.