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I am away from my history studies. Doing construction all day long
and imbibing after work leaves no time to embark upon my Josephus
work. There is a character I am interested in and I plan to
investigate his genealogy. His name is Zerubbabel.

Zerubbabel presumably was summoned to account and was executed as
a rebel, for his name disappears from our sources. ISBN 0-226-62777-2

I wish that A.T.Olmstead was still alive so that I could point out to
him that he was very close to discovering the truth. Zerubbabel is
mentioned by Ezra and his name gets changed to Sanballet. Ezra is
followed by Nehemiah and Nehemiah has a confrontation with Sanballet.
*** please note that Zurubbabel becomes Sanballet and any mention of
Sanballet would include his kindred, that his why it is so hard to
follow Josephus, his characters are doubled, i.e., Sanballet's sons
are called Sanballet. ***

Now, we have an interesting Jewish chapter about the Maccabees and the
kindred spirit of the Maccabees is a man named Mattathias. He has five
sons ... as the story goes. However, there is no mention of his wife!
(Is there a mattathias inn Christ's genealogy?)

The reason being is because his sons are not biological. A problematic
assertion by readers of scripture is that begat means "biological
father of" when it really means "priest of". The begotten are acolytes.
Of course, there is no mention of begotten in the Maccabees saga, my point
is that "son" is not necessarily biological.

In Josephus there is this priest who marries one of Sanballet's
(the Samaritan) daughters. Josephus scoffs it off but leaves a lot of
unanswered questions.

Obviously this priest had sons and daughters by this woman. This priest
is also, in some way, connected to Mattathias and to John Hyrcanus. A
hidden truth is that Hyrcanus is an upsurper and the sons of Mattathias
made war against one another.

Josephus has this character named Aristobulus who declares himself priest-
king of the Jews. Look up the definition of aristocrat. Aristobulus'
relationship to John Hyrcanus is intentionally vague. Remember, father and
son are not biological. Now, Aristobulus claiming to be king of the Jew
is not "pulled out of the clear blue sky". The reason he claims to be
"king" is because he is a direct descendant of Zurubbabel (Sanballet).
Josephus almost comes out and says that this Aristobulus was assassinated
(poisoned) by Simon the Essene.

Somehow Herod's wife, Mariamne I is related to this Aristobulus and so is
the last king of the Jews, Agrippa I (or Agrippa II, take your pick).

The point I am making is that the original Aristobulus is a grandson of
Sanballet. King Herod married into the "Samaritan" family of Jesus Christ.
Agrippa knows Jesus and they are related.