On 4/5/04 11:15 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
Edersheim (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, vol.II p.414 in my
1886 edition) refers to the murder of "Zacharias, the son of Baruch" as
reported by Josephus, War iv. 5.4, Maybe this is the correct Josephus
reference. But it seems to be to a death in the final siege of Jerusalem.
Looks right:
Here is the ancient WWinston translation:
War.4.5.4. (334) And now these zealots and Idumeans were quite weary of
barely killing men, so they had the impudence of setting up fictitious
tribunals and judicatures for that purpose; (335) and as they intended to
have Zacharias,2 the son of Baruch, ...
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