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Mattathias B. Simon
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Son of the Hasmonean prince Simon, whom he accompanied on his last journey, together with his brother Judah and his mother. Simon, with his sons, was invited by his son-in-law Ptolemy to a banquet in the fortress of Docus, near Jericho, where he was murdered, his sons being first put in fetters and then killed. The accounts in I Maccabees and in Josephus do not agree as to whether Mattathias was slain at the same time as his father, or later; Josephus, however, probably reports the affair more correctly, as he refers also to other sources.
Bibliography:
- I Macc. 16:16;
- Josephus, Ant. 13:8, § 1;
- idem, B. J. 1:2, § 3;
- C. Werner, Johann Hyrkan, p. 10, note 22, Wernigerode, 1877;
- Grätz, Gesch. 3:67 et seq.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Mattathias B. Simon'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/mattathias-b-simon.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Mattathias B. Simon'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/mattathias-b-simon.html. 1901.
