Sosas

Family: Jewish · Role: father of Jacob · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 4

Sosas is an Idumean and the father of Jacob. In Book IV, Chapter 4, Jacob is named as “the son of Sosas” among the commanders; by Book V, Chapter 6, he is one of the eight commanders of the five thousand Idumeans and is counted among those of greatest fame.

Relationship record

Book IV, Chapter 4

• parent: Jacob (Parent-to-child relation.) “John, and Jacob the son of Sosas”
• child: Jacob (Sosas is Jacob's father.) “under four commanders, John, and Jacob the son of Sosas;”

Book V, Chapter 6

• child: Jacob the son of Sosas “The Idumeans that paid him homage were five thousand, and had eight commanders, among whom those of greatest fame were Jacob the son of Sosas, and Simon the son of Cathlas.”

Book VI, Chapter 8

• child: Jacob “of whom the most eminent was Jacob, the son of Sosas”

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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.