Jonathan ben Ananus (sources)

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Survey of ancient sources on Jonathan ben Ananus.

Early Jewish sources

Josephus, Jewish Antiquites

Ant XVIII 4:3 -- [[[Vitellius]]] deprived Joseph, who was also called Caiaphas, of the high priesthood, and appointed Jonathan the son of Ananus, the former high priest, to succeed him.

Ant XVIII 5:3 -- [[[Vitellius]]] with Herod the tetrarch and his friends, went up to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice to God, an ancient festival of the Jews being then just approaching... he made a stay there for three days, within which time he deprived Jonathan of the high priesthood, and gave it to his brother Theophilus. But when on the fourth day letters came to him, which informed him of the death of Tiberius...