Ananias son of Nedebaios

Ananias (also Ananias ), son of Nedebaios ( Greek form, the corresponding Hebrew name is Nedabiah, also the shape Nebedaios appears in Josephus ) ( † ca 66 AD)

Appointed by King Herod of Chalcis, Ananias was 47-59 AD ( with a break 52/53 AD) High Priest in the Temple of Jerusalem. He presided at the trial of Paul in Jerusalem and entered into Caesarea before Felix the governor, together with the lawyer Tertullus as prosecutor Paul on.

At the instigation of Gaius Ummidius Quadratus, governor of Syria, he was brought to Rome in 52 AD, to be responsible for riots in the province. However, he was acquitted of Emperor Claudius.

Josephus reports that he would be standing at the end of his tenure with the people in highest honor, because he not only knew how to get through financial transactions to wealth, but this wealth for gifts to the governor Albinus used, which they managed to propitiate. Only his servants had dared to assault the tithes of the priests, which some priests, their basic food deprived starvation died.

The Talmud, however, he is shown in a very negative way: He had made ​​famous only by his gluttony and never be a victim piece left in his time.

As a Roman friend and collaborator, he was assassinated at the outbreak of the Jewish War of the Zealots.

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• High priest (Judaism )
• Man
• Born in the 1st century BC or 1st century
• Died in the 1st century