

An edition of From Joshua to Caiaphas (2004)
High Priests After the Exile
By James C. Vanderkam
Publish Date
October 2004
Publisher
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Language
eng
Pages
548
Description:
"Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed religious authority but also exercised political control. This book gathers and assesses the surviving evidence about each of the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE until approximately 70 CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed."--BOOK JACKET.