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'''Matthias to Herod''' The idea that [[Josephus]] shows that Herod the Great was a descendent of Matthias of the Hasmonean dynasty has been reported on the article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antipater_the_Idumaean&diff=146203839&oldid=140957876 "Antipater the Idumaean"] on Wikipedia. That article was then cited [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancient_genealogy/message/443 here] on the Ancient Genealogy group. This linkage is spurious as I shall demonstrate. The spurious linkage is given as follows: : Matthias the Hasmonean had five sons, including Judas Maccabeus & Eleazar Auran, XII:9:4 : Eleazar Auran had Jason, XII:10:6 : Jason had Antipas/Antipator I, XIII:5:8 : Antipas/Antipator had A. II, XIV:1:3 : Antipas/Antipator II was, by Prss. Cypros of Petra Nabatea : Herod the Great, King of Judea Now let's deconstuct it. XII 9:4 says this : "When Judas saw this, he was not terrified, but received the enemy with great courage, and slew about six hundred of the first ranks. But when his brother Eleazar, whom they called Auran, saw the tallest of all the elephants armed with royal breastplates, and supposed that the king was upon him, he attacked him with great quickness and bravery. He also slew many of those that were about the elephant, and scattered the rest, and then went under the belly of the elephant, and smote him, and slew him; so the elephant fell upon Eleazar, and by his weight crushed him to death. And thus did this man come to his end, when he had first courageously destroyed manyof his enemies." ==Sources== *[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antipater_the_Idumaean&diff=146203839&oldid=140957876 A snapshot of the article "Antipater the Idumaean"] on Wikipedia *[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancient_genealogy/message/443 Message 443] on the Google Group "Ancient Genealogy"
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