Theophilus ben Ananus (sources)
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Survey of ancient sources on Theophilus ben Ananus.
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Early Christian sources
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
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...
Ant XIX 6:2 -- When Agrippa had entirely finished all the duties of the Divine worship, he removed Theophilus, the son of Ananus, from the high priesthood, and bestowed that honor of his on Simon the son of Boethus, whose name was also Cantheras whose daughter king Herod married...