From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

From Joshua to Caiaphas: High Priests after the Exile. By James C. VanderKam. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004, xix + 548 pp., $35.00.

James C. VanderKam surveys and summarizes what can be known about the Jewish high priests who served after the exile until the destruction of the second Temple in AD 70. Though the book is titled From Joshua to Caiaphas, he discusses all the high priests, a total of 51, from Joshua (ca. 538-30 and 520 BC) to Phannias son of Samuel (AD 68?). The impetus for his book, says VanderKam, first arose in the 1980s. During his research, he was surprised to learn "that, ...

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