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a) The Babylonian Captivity ended in 538 BCE. If one subtracts the years mentioned in the Damascus Document, (390+20=) 410 from 538 the result is 128 BCE. The early Jonathan (High Priest from 152-142 BCE) died in 142 BCE. Therefore (if one regards these numbers as reliable) that Jonathan was dead in...

Contra Apion may have been written decades after War.

Very slightly more (partly in the comments):
http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... l#comments

In getting the Israel Museum J. I found also this from my yellowed copy of Jerusalem Post, June 14, 1985, p. 6, in case it interests anyone here: "Qimron and Strugnell side with those who believe it [the Wicked Priest] was Jonathan, one of the brothers of Judah the Maccabee....The late professo...

If we subtract 481 years and three months from 538 BCE, the end of Babylonian captivity, does that result match the date of Aristobulus the First?... (No.) (Btw, fwiw, Strabo wrote that Alexander [Jannaeus] was the first to proclaim himself king. That may accord with the Talmud dinner discussed by V...

Reply to John T: As I wrote on page 17 of "Jannaeus..." http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf "I have long been in favor of additional C14 testing." I expressed this, for example, in my note, "Radiocarbon Dating the Dead Sea Scrolls," Biblical Archaeologist 54 (...

Prof. Rollston's third comment:
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=833

Though, if it's a long section (in a text free to read online) giving pages numbers (as I did above: "on pages 2 through 7 (and endnotes)") is preferable.

It is o.k. with me. (And "fair use" allows some quoting even with copyright.)
Stephen

a) Relevant is the article by John J. Collins, The Origin of the Scrolls Community and its Historical Context, Henoch 39 (2017) pages 8-23. He makes several arguments--some rather similar to mine. He rejects the earlier Jonathan as Wicked Priest, and as well, he rejects Simon as Wicked Priest, the l...