From Joshua to Caiaphas
Subtitle: High Priests After the Exile
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780800626174
Subjects: Judaism; Religion; History; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Bible - Study - Old Testament; Theology; 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Jewish high priests; Jews
Description: "Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed religious authority but also exercised political control. This book gathers and assesses the surviving evidence about each of the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE until approximately 70 CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed."--BOOK JACKET.