The Wars of the Jews

Mary

Family: Jewish · Role: woman from beyond Jordan · First appears: Book VI, Chapter 3

Life events

  • Mary killed, roasted, and ate half of her son during the famine.(Book VI, Chapter 3 · 📍 Jerusalem)
    • “As soon as she had said this, she slew her son, and then roasted him, and eat the one half of him, and kept the other half by her concealed.”

Book VI, Chapter 3

  • parent: Eleazar (unresolved ch092) “There was a certain woman that dwelt beyond Jordan, her name was Mary; her father was Eleazar, of the village Bethezob, which signifies the house of Hyssop.”

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