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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Eleazar B. Jair
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
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Leader of the Sicarii, the remnant of whom, driven from Jerusalem about 70 by Eleazar b. Ananias, retired to MASADA. Eleazar was a descendant of Judah, the founder of the party of Zealots. Besieged by the Romans, Eleazar exhorted his fellow warriors to prefer death to slavery, and, when it became necessary, to kill first their families and then themselves. This speech, together with a dirge on the fall of Jerusalem ascribed to him, is found in Hebrew in Yosippon, ch. 97, though the hero is here erroneously called "Eleazar b. Ananias."
Bibliography:
- Grätz, Gesch. 4th ed., 3:460,549;
- Schürer, Gesch. 3d ed., 1:639.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Eleazar B. Jair'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/eleazar-b-jair.html. 1901.
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Eleazar B. Jair'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/e/eleazar-b-jair.html. 1901.
