Ananias (high priest)

Also known as: Ananias / the high priest · Family: priestly · Role: high priest · First appears: Book II, Chapter 17

In Book II, Chapter 17, Ananias is identified as the father of Eleazar and Simon, and as the brother of Hezekiah. The next day, seditious people burned the house of Ananias the high priest, along with Agrippa’s palaces and the city archives.

On the following day, robbers found Ananias concealed in an aqueduct and killed him together with Hezekiah. In Book II, Chapter 20, Eleazar is again identified as the son of Ananias the high priest.

Relationship record

Life events

• The seditious burned Ananias’s house, Agrippa’s palaces, and the city archives.(Book II, Chapter 17)
  • With: Agrippa (the present king)
  • “The others then set fire to the house of Ananias the high priest, and to the palaces of Agrippa and Bernice; after which they carried the fire to the place where the archives were reposited, and made haste to burn the contracts belonging to their creditors, and thereby to dissolve their obligations for paying their debts;”
• Robbers discovered and killed the concealed high priest Ananias and his brother Hezekiah.(Book II, Chapter 17)
  • With: Hezekiah
  • “But on the next day the high priest was caught where he had concealed himself in an aqueduct; he was slain, together with Hezekiah his brother, by the robbers:”

Book II, Chapter 17

• child: Eleazar (son of Ananias) “Eleazar, the son of Ananias the high priest”
• child: Simon (son of Ananias) “the chief of which was Simon the son of Ananias”
• siblings with Hezekiah “he was slain, together with Hezekiah his brother”

Book II, Chapter 20

• child: Eleazar the son of Ananias “Jesus, the son of Sapphias, one of the high priests; and Eleazar, the son of Ananias, the high priest; they also enjoined Niger, the then governor of Idumea,”

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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.