Mattathias ben Theophilus (sources)

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Survey of ancient sources on Mattathias ben Theophilus.

Overview

Early Jewish sources

Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

Ant XX 9, 7 (277)-- ...King Agrippa... deprived Jesus, the son of Gamaliel, of the high priesthood, and gave it to Matthias, the son of Theophilus.

Josephus, Jewish War

Cf. Bel VI 2, 2 (114) --