Joiakim (sources)
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Survey of ancient sources on the High Priest Joiakim ben Joshua.
Overview
Early Jewish sources
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ant XI 5:1 -- Upon the death of Darius, Xerxes his son took the kingdom... Now about this time a son of Jeshua, whose name was Joachim, was the high priest...
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.