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Caiaphas Ossuary
 
Caiaphas Ossuary
The bone box of Joseph Caiaphas, High Priest whom the gospels claim arranged for Jesus' execution by Rome.
 
Bibliography
 
Avni, Gideon and Zvi Greenhut, eds.  The Akeldama Tombs: Three Burial Caves in the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, vol. 1, IAA Report 1. Jerusalem: Ahva Press, 1996.
 
Chilton, Bruce.  "Caiaphas."  In Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman; New York: Doubleday, 1992) 1:803-806.
 
Domeris, William R. and Simon M. S. Long.  "The Recently Excavated Tomb of Joseph Bar Caipha and the Biblical Caiaphas."  Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 89 (1994) 50-58.
 
Evans, Craig A.  "Excavating Caiaphas, Pilate, and Simon of Cyrene: Assessing the Literary and Archaeological Evidence."  In Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2006) 323-40.   Republished in Jesus and the Remains of His Day: Studies in Jesus and the Evidence of Material Culure (Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2015).
 
 
Flusser, David.  "Caiaphas in the New Testament."  Atiqot 21:2 (1992) 81-7.
 
Greenhut, Zvi.  "Burial Cave of the Caiaphas Family."  Biblical Archaeology Review 18:5 (1992) 29-36, 76.
 
--------.  "The Caiaphas Tomb in Northeast Talpiyot, Jerusalem."  Atiqot 21 (1992) 63-71.
 
Horbury, William.  "The 'Caiaphas' Ossuaries and Joseph Caiaphas."  Palestine Exploration Quarterly 126:1 (1994) 32-48.
 
Reich, Ronny.  "Caiaphas Name Inscribed on Bone Boxes."  Biblical Archaeology Review 18:5 (1992) 40-44, 76.
 
--------.  "Ossuary Inscriptions from the Caiaphas Tomb."  Jerusalem Perspective 4:5-6 (1991) 13-21.
 
Reinhartz, Adele.  Caiaphas the High Priest, Studies on Personalities of the New Testament.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.
 
--------.  "Crucifying Caiaphas: Hellenism and the High Priesthood in Life of Jesus Narratives."  In Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders (ed. Fabian E. Udoh, with Susannah Heschel, Mark Chancey and Gregory Tatum; Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008) 227-45.
 
Zias, Joe.  "Human Skeletal Remains from the 'Caiaphas' Tomb."  Atiqot 21:2 (1992) 78-80.
 
 
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