<div dir="ltr">from wikipedia<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">The high priests belonged to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen" title="Kohen" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Jewish priestly</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> families that trace their paternal line back to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron" title="Aaron" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Aaron</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">, the first high priest of Israel and elder brother of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses" title="Moses" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Moses</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">, through </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadok" title="Zadok" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Zadok</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">, a leading priest at the time of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David" title="David" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">David</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px"> and</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Solomon</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">. This tradition came to an end in the 2nd century BCE during the rule of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty" title="Hasmonean dynasty" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">Hasmoneans</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="" style="line-height:1;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Priest_of_Israel#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);white-space:nowrap;background:none">[2]</a></sup></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.2px;line-height:11.2px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11.2px">The Jewish Encylopedia <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7689-high-priest">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7689-high-priest</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height:11.2px">towards the end has a list of all the high priests. In the second Temple era it is mainly based on Josephus. Note that the only Yochanan in the entire list is John Hyrcanus (son of Simin Maccabbee)<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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