Category:Eliashib (subject)
Eliashib was the Jewish High Priest, from 470 BCE to 433 BCE.
Biography
Eliashib was a member of the House of Zadok. He ruled as High Priest, from 470 BCE (after his father Joiakim), to 433 BCE (followed by his son Joiada). Both the Memoirs of Nehemiah and Josephus located his priesthood at the time of Nehemiah (who according to Ezra-Nehemiah was a contemporaneous of Ezra, while according to Josephus, came after the death of Ezra).
Eliashib in ancient 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.
Eliashib in Scholarship
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