Chares

Family: Jewish · Role: leader in Gamala · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 1

Life events

• Chares died from illness worsened by terror during Gamala's collapse.(Book IV, Chapter 1 · 📍 Gamala)
  • “Then it was that Chares, who was ill, and under the physician's hands, gave up the ghost, the fear he was in greatly contributing to make his distemper fatal to him.”

Book IV, Chapter 1

• with Joseph (unresolved ch066) (They were the two most powerful leaders in the city.) “but Chares and Joseph, who were the most potent men in the city, set their armed men in order, though already in a fright”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.