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Thanks, Ben. The Encyclopedia list that you gave just cites Josephus for the first century priests' list. It just repeats him practically.

Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:41 am Does anybody know where books 15-17 from the Loeb series might be online?

Here it is:
https://archive.org/details/josephuswit ... ft/page/n5

Is there a list of high priests besides the one that Josephus supplies? That way we could compare the list of priests in order to learn if there is a possible candidate for one who served at the same time that Jesus Ben Damneus did. Unfortunately, I can't find any such list when I looked today. But ...

They put the rest of Loeb's edition of Josephus online:

Volume 9 of Loeb's is Books XVIII-XIX of the Antiquities:
https://archive.org/details/josephuswit ... ft/page/n5

Volume 10 of Loeb's is Book XX of the Antiquities:
https://archive.org/details/josephuswit ... ft/page/n5

Nice.

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Oskar Holtzmann in his book The Life of Jesus suggests that the passage from the Gospel of the Egyptians can be clarified with Jesus' reply to the Sadduccees in Mark 12 that after the resurrection there won't be marriage. Holtzmann reasons that since there is no more death, there might not be marria...

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