Download or read book From Joshua to Caiaphas written by James C. VanderKam and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning late in the Old Testament period and continuing for the next six hundred years, the Jewish high priests were often the most important members of Jewish society. They not only possessed religious authority but also exercised political control. This book gathers and assesses the surviving evidence about each of the fifty-one men who served as high priest from about 515 BCE until approximately 70 CE when the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed.