Archeological
notes: “...'Caiaphas' house has been located. It's up on the hill not far from
our site,' Gibson points out in additional support of the thesis. 'We know from
pilgrim reports that Caiaphas’s house was in this area. The Armenian site is
just up the hill from our site, the Roman Catholic site Peter Gallicanu is just
below,' Prof. James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte told
Haaretz. 'Caiaphas was the son-in-law of Annas, who had six sons who w ere high
priests. He ran the show for about 60 years putting his sons in one after the
other, and his son-in-law, Caiaphas along the way. So perhaps these are the
homes of that extended priestly dynasty,' Tabor said. The high priests at that
time were notorious, with a reputation for being corrupt, brutal and greedy. We
learn this not only from the Gospel accounts but from Talmudic texts telling
how the high priest used to beat the people with sticks (Pesachim 57a,
Pp.284-285). Josephus gives us a similarly grim account, coining the high
priest a 'hoarder of money' (Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews 20.9.2-4: 'But
as for the high priest, Ananias, he increased in glory every day, and this to a
great degree, and had obtained the favor and esteem of the citizens in a signal
manner; for he was a great hoarder up of money')...."
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