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[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/05/2016 12:39 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
>  According to Josephus, a guest at a banquet for the Pharisees accused
>  Hyrcanus of being a [mamzer], unfit for the high priesthood.

He was not accused of being a mamzer but a chalal, because his mother had
once been kidnapped and was thus unfit to be married a kohen.   We don't
need to go to Josephus for this story, it's a braisa in Kiddushin 66a.


> I think it takes a Xian with their "Render of Caesar" that eventually
> led to Separation of Church and State to assume that politics vs religion
> is a dichotomy.

The article makes the same point: "In antiquity, there was no neat division
between politics and religion".



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