Simon the Essene

Also known as: Simon · Family: Essens · Role: interpreter of dreams · First appears: Book II, Chapter 7

Life events

• Archelaus is summoned to trial after Simon interprets his ominous dream.(Book II, Chapter 7)
  • With: Archelaus (son of Herod and Malthace)
  • “Now five days after Archelaus had heard this interpretation he was called to his trial.”

Book II, Chapter 7

• with Archelaus (son of Herod and Malthace) (Simon interpreted Archelaus's dream.) “When, therefore, he had sent for the diviners, and some of the Chaldeans, and inquired of them what they thought it portended; and when one of them had one interpretation, and another had another, Simon, one of the sect of Essens, said that he thought the ears of corn denoted years”
• with Archelaus (son of Herod and Malthace) (interaction) “When, therefore, he had sent for the diviners, and some of the Chaldeans, and inquired of them what they thought it portended; and when one of them had one interpretation, and another had another, Simon, one of the sect of Essens, said that he thought the ears of corn denoted years”

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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.