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family which produced five high priests during the Herodiau period (Josei>lius. "Ant." .x. 9, ij 1). These were Eleazar, Jonathan, Thcopliilus. Auan,
issued,
forbidding Jews to owner to rent in Little Russia inns or any other property
on Aug.
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previous edict, of July
Jews from
Little Russia.
BiBLiooRAPHT: Lev.inda, Pnlnn Klirimnluyhichri'ki SImrnik Zalsoniir, etc., 1.H74. pp. 7-14 N. Kostomiirnv. Uu-iskam In:
liiriiia. etc.,
2d
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passim and
ls«!. v.
il.
142 (7 wg.; Solovyev, Istoriya Rus-
519 et soi.
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ANNAS
("Anaf: also known as Anan; probably a contracted form of the name Ananiah in its Greek form. 'Avavn^. which is employed by Josephus): Son of Sethi, or Seth (Jo.sephus, ""Ant." xviii. 2, § 1), a Jewish high priest. He was appointed to the office by Quirinus, governor of .Syria, to succeed Joazar. AVhen in his thirty-seventh year, and after having held his position from the years 6-15, he was deposed by Valerius Gratus, procurator of Judea. Annas was the head of a
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His daughter was married to the high priest Joseph, who. under the surname of Caiaphas,
and Matthias.
held that olliee aljout ten J'ears (27-37). Annas is the high jiriest who appears in the New Testament as holding this office along with Caiaphas, his son-in-law (Luke. iii. 2). In fact, one passage calls him |ilainly the high priest (Acts, iv. 0), while Caiaphas is merely a member of the hierarchic family. It is into Annas' hands that Jesus is delivered for his first hearing, ere being sent to Caiaphas (John, xviii. 13). though in another passjige (John, xi. 49, .51) Caiaphas is styled the higli priest of that year. From these citations it is obvious that though Caiaphas was the properly ap|)ointed high priest, Annas, being his father-in-law and a fonner incumbent of the office, undoubtedly exercised a great The use deal of the power attached to the position.
