Joseph (unresolved ch024)

Also known as: Joseph · Family: Herod's family · Role: nephew of Herod · First appears: Book I, Chapter 24

Life events

Pheroras refused to consummate his royal marriage, so Herod married his daughter to Joseph.(Book I, Chapter 24)
- With: Pheroras Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros)
- “Pheroras refused to consummate this royal marriage, out of his affection to a maidservant of his. Upon which account Herod was very angry, and gave that daughter in marriage to a brother's son of his, [Joseph,]”

elder kin: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) “Herod had also given him a wife out of the royal family, who was no other than his own wife's sister, and after her death had solemnly espoused to him his own eldest daughter, with a dowry of three hundred talents; but Pheroras refused to consummate this royal marriage, out of his affection to a maidservant of his. Upon which account Herod was very angry, and gave that daughter in marriage to a brother's son of his, [Joseph,]”

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