The half a century before the birth of the Jewish messiah, Yehoshua HaMaschiach (Jesus the Messiah), the land of Judea was swirling with intrigue, international politics, political assassinations, royal sibling rivalries, dynastic marriages, alliances, treaties, and geo-political machinations. There surrounded by the last of the Maccabee rulers, and the first of the Herodians, was the ancestral family of Yehoshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Nazarene). This dynastic family of the House of David has been documented for almost two millenniums in the Brit Hadassah (reNewed Testament) and for equally that long has been argued, debated, and challenged about who were these people and what was their role and involvement in the social culture of that man the Christians call Jesus of Nazareth.

It has long been the position of the Roman Christian Church and the orthodox apologetics that Jesus was born in Nazareth to a poor peasant family, living in a small rural village, probably had little education, spoke the colloquial Semitic language of Aramaic. They have taught that He probably did not read nor speak Hebrew, Greek, nor Latin. Yet, the historical and genealogical testimony that is today available testifies to a different fact…(Click to Open the Article, “The Royal Davidian, Maccabee, and Levitical Ancestors of Jesus (Yehoshua)”

The Virgin and Child with Balaam the Prophet – Earliest Known Image of Mary and the Infant Jesus in the 2^nd Century Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome. (Numbers 24:7)

“The Political and Royal Heritage of Miriam, the Chosen Princess, as the Mother of the Jewish Messiah”

Chapter Two

Topics

The “Madonna and Child”

Mary, the Most Famous and Revered Woman in History

The House of Zadok

The Gospel of Luke Lineage to Jesus through His Mother, Mary

Heli, the Davidian Prince - the Father of the Maiden called Miriam

Hannah, the Levite - the Mother of the Maiden called Miriam

Prince Mattathias and Princess Alexandra II - The Paternal Grandparents of the Maiden, Miriam

The Wives and Children of Mattathias, (Mattat ben Levi)

Elizabeth of Jerusalem - The Mother of Heli (Prince Alexander Helios III)

The Hasmonean Kings of Judea

Rachel of Arimathea - The Mother of Joseph of Arimathea

Salome of Jerusalem - The Mother of Prince Gjor

Joseph of Arimathea - The Rich Man of Jerusalem

“Mary the daughter of Heli” in the Jerusalem Talmud

Lineages

The House of Zadok

The Gospel of Luke Lineage to Jesus through His Mother, Mary

The Wives and Children of Mattathias, (Mattat ben Levi)

The Hasmonean Kings of Judea

There is not one woman in the history of the world more known, loved, revered, respected and honored than Mary, the mother of Jesus. Known in her native land as Princess Miriam, she is today revered by two great religions; Christianity and Islam. In her native Jewish land, the life and ministry of her Son is the most studied of all historical and religious literature by the Jewish rabbanim of the first century Jewish temple culture.

In spite of some defensive aspersions of some Jews concerning her Son, Yehoshua (Jesus), Miriam is held in respect as the ideal mother, who stands by her family even in the most intense moments of social rejection and sorrow.

The family of Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, came from a family of royal Davidian princes, all of whom carried the hidden dream of being the Promised One, or the father of the Promised One who would sit on the seat of their ancestral forefather, King David. In contrast, Mary’s family lived in the aura of the majesty and beauty of the temple culture of the Jews in Jerusalem… (Click to Open the Article, “The Political and Royal Heritage of Miriam, the Chosen Princess, as the Mother of the Jewish Messiah”)

The “Golden Robe”, the Breastplate and the Miter of the High Priest

“The Religious Heritage of Miriam, the Chosen Princess, as the Granddaughter of a High Priest”

Chapter Three

Topics

The High Priest Yehoshua III (Jesus III) – The Maternal Grandfather of Mary

The Return of the Priests of the House of Zadok

The House of Zadok Lineage

The End of the Maccabee Era and the Rise of King Herod the Great

The Last King of the Hasmoneans and the Battle for Jerusalem

The Marriages and Heirs of King Herod the Great

The Lineage of Sara, called Doris of Jerusalem, the wife of King Herod

The Wives and Children of King Herod the Great

The Family of Jesus’ Relationship with the Hasmoneans and the Herodians

The Hasmonean Kings of Judea

The Fate of Prince Aristobulus III, the last of the Hasmonean High Priests

The Return of High Priest Ananelus of the House of Boethus

Who were Ananelus the Babylonian and Hananeel the Egyptian?

The Mysterious One Day Reign of the High Priest Joseph ben Eliam

How Simon IV Boethus became High Priest because a Love Affair by King Herod

The Governors and Patriarchs of Jerusalem from 50 BCE to 10 CE

Ancestors of the High Priest Yehoshua III (Jesus III) – Exile in the Land of Egypt

Lineages

The House of Zadok Lineage

The Lineage of Sara, called Doris of Jerusalem, the wife of King Herod

The Wives and Children of King Herod the Great

The Hasmonean Kings of Judea

The Governors and Patriarchs of Jerusalem from 50 BCE to 10 CE

We’ve always had the hint of the Levitical and priestly ancestry of Miriam, yet the full implications that she was a granddaughter of the high priest of Israel is only being realized. The implications on a realization of our understanding, that the God of Israel found it important that His Son that He sent to this earth would be of both Davidian bloodlines, blended with the authentic bloodlines of the descendants of Zadok the High Priest has yet to be discussed nor comprehended.

We have already hinted that the grandfather of Miriam was Yehoshua III, the high priest of Israel about twenty years before Miriam’s son Yehoshua HaNotzri (Jesus the Messiah) was born. Yehoshua III, the High Priest of Israel was one of the most mysterious of all the high priests in the era of King Herod the Great. He came to power as the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem in 36 BCE, one year after the Great Sanhedrin made the momentous vote... (Click to Open the Article, “The Religious Heritage of Miriam, the Chosen Princess, as the Granddaughter of a High Priest”)

elephantine_sudan_egypt The Land of Egypt, where the Temples of the Lord were built at Leontopolis, near Heliopolis to the North in the Delta and on the Island of Elephantine in the midst of the Nile River to the South near the 1^st Cataract

The Temple of Bubastis in the Delta region of Leontopolis, Egypt.

“The Jewish Temples in Egypt and the Zadokian High Priest Influence of the Ancestors of Jesus”

Chapter Four

Topics

The Jewish Temple in the Land of Onias at Leontopolis

The Lineage of High Priests in Exile at Leontopolis Egypt

Elephantine Colony of Jews in the Days of Prince Anani

The Lineage of the House of Boethus to Yehoshua (Jesus)

The Religious and Political World of Mary’s Ancestors

The Priestly Lineage from Eli to Zadok, the High Priest

Lineage from Aaron through the High Priest Simon the Just to Jesus the Messiah

Lineage of the High Priests of Zadok, from Simon the Just to Jesus III

The Finger of the Almighty One of Israel

The Lineages of the Last Generations of all-Jewish Davidians

Lineages

The Lineage of High Priests in Exile at Leontopolis Egypt

The Lineage of the House of Boethus to Yehoshua (Jesus)

The Priestly Lineage from Eli to Zadok, the High Priest

Lineage from Aaron through the High Priest Simon the Just to Jesus the Messiah

Lineage of the High Priests of Zadok, from Simon the Just to Jesus III

The Lineages of the Last Generations of all-Jewish Davidians

The Jewish Temple in the Land of Onias at Leontopolis in Egypt

Near to the ancient ruins of the royal residence of the Pharaoh Shoshenq I, the first ruler of the 22^nd dynasty in 952 BCE, a temple to the God of Israel was built. This Pharaoh Shoshenq I many archeologists believe was the biblical Pharaoh Shishak that invaded Jerusalem and looted the Temple of Solomon of many of his splendid furnishings after the death of King Solomon.

Now eight hundred years later, the great, great, great grandfather of the High Priest Yeshua III, moved his entire family to Egypt for he and his family had been denied the hereditarial divinely appointed right of assuming the position of the high priest of Israel. Onias III, the great grandson of Simon I the Just (Tzaddik), was the last legitimate non-Hellenist high priest, that was the documented descendant of the High Priest of the Israelites, Aaron, through the lineage of Zadok.

It was the year 164 BCE and Onias V (not Menelaus as Onias IV) became the first high priest that was denied the office of the high priest by an outside imperial ruler…(Click to Open the Article, “The Jewish Temples in Egypt and the Zadokian High Priest Influence of the Ancestors of Jesus”)

Joseph, Talking with the Angel about the Fate of Miriam and the Conception of Jesus

“‘Out of Egypt, I will Bring My Son’ - The Mystery of Cleopatra of Jerusalem”

Chapter Five

Matthew 2:14 – “Then he (Joseph) arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” (Hosea 11:1)

Topics

Jacob ben Mattan, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Cleopatra of Jerusalem

The House of Zadok Lineage

The Babylonian Ancestry of Patriarch Jacob and Governor Nehemiah

37 BCE - The Restoration of the non-Jewish Davidian Lineages and High Priests of Zadok

Prince Shammai, the “Eighteen Measures” and the Split of the Pharisees

32 BCE – The Patriarch of Jerusalem, Jacob ben Matthan

Wives of Prince Jacob (Ya’akov ben Matthan)

30 BCE - The Arrival of the Royal Princess of Egypt and Rome, Cleopatra of Jerusalem

Husbands of Princess Cleopatra VIII

The Mystery of Cleopatra of Jerusalem - Reputed Posthumous Daughter of Queen Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII – The Last Pharaoh of Egypt

Cleopatra’s Royal Visit to Rome

Battle of Actium - The Final War of the Roman Republic

The Fall of the Greek Ptolemaic Empire

The Consequences of Cleopatra’s Royal Visit to Rome

The Marriages and Children of Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Lineages

The House of Zadok Lineage

Wives of Prince Jacob (Ya’akov ben Matthan)

Husbands of Princess Cleopatra VIII

The Descendants of Cleopatra VII of Egypt

The Marriages and Children of Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Jacob ben Mattan, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and Cleopatra of Jerusalem

It was in the year of 30 BCE, that the newly inaugurated Patriarch of Jerusalem, Jacob ben Matthan, was sent as Herod the Great’s emissary to Alexandria Egypt with 3000 Jewish troops. It was to be Herod’s token of fealty to the one he prognosticated to be the next ruler of Rome. How important this decision was to be. Octavian ended up not being the future Dictator of Rome, but the future Augustus Caesar. As such, he transformed Rome from a contender for world domination to becoming the Empire for the entire then known world. Though the historical information is circumstantial, as the last gasps of Imperial Egypt were now fading into history with the suicidal deaths of the Roman triumvir Mark Antony and the last Pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, the fate of her children had to be decided by the new conqueror, the future, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus…(Click to Open the Article, “‘Out of Egypt, I will Bring My Son’ - The Mystery of Cleopatra of Jerusalem”)

Living Room in an Upper City Mansion – Wohl Archaeological Museum in Jewish Quarters in Jerusalem

Model of a Jerusalem Davidian or High Priestly Family in Upper City Jerusalem – Photo by Robert Mock

“The Davidian Princes in the Days of Herod the Great”

Chapter Six

Topics

The Life of a Davidian Prince in the Days of Herod the Great

Wives and Family of Patriarch Jacob (Ya’akov ben Matthan)

The Era that the Family of Patriarch Ya’akov ben Matthan (Jacob son of Matthan) Lived

The Great Shmittah Year Famine of 24 BCE

23 BCE - The Year of Love, Passion, and Calamity

The Gospel of Matthew Abiudite Lineage to Jesus through Joseph, Jesus’ Father

The Missing Ancestors in Jesus Matthew Lineage

The Lineages of the Descendants of Matthan ben Eliezar

Lineages

Wives and Family of Patriarch Jacob (Ya’akov ben Matthan)

The Gospel of Matthew Abiudite Lineage to Jesus through Joseph, Jesus’ Father

The Missing Ancestors in Jesus’ Matthew Lineage

The Lineages of the Descendants of Matthan ben Eliezar

Prince Jacob, known as Ya’akov ben Matthan, the father of the Prince of David Joseph the Carpenter, was appointed as the Patriarch of Jerusalem by King Herod the Great. He became the highest appointed official of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, and was called the “Prince of Israel”. We have no idea where Prince Jacob and Cleopatra of Jerusalem lived with his family, except it is reasonable to assume that the highest appointed Jewish Davidian leader would be found living in the aristocratic residential district of Upper City Jerusalem, near the Temple Mount region and the Temple of Zerubabbel.

In the era of King Herod the Great (37-4 BCE), the elders of Israel, the members of the Great Sanhedrin, the families of the High Priest, and the Sadducees family of Boethus, the elite and appointed family of Zadok the high priest of King David lived, according to scholars in the Upper City. It was here we believe that governing Princes of David also lived. They were still trying to accommodate a life within the Jewish leadership in a changing world from the Hasmonean era of Jewish priest-kings to the emerging era of the foreign Idumean Herodians. Today, this district has now been archeologically uncovered, and preserved 10 to 22 feet below modern street level in the Wohl Archeological Museum in the Jewish Quarter of Old Jerusalem. …(Click to Open the Article, “The Davidian Princes in the Days of Herod the Great”)

Sea of Galilee from Gamla Gamla The Fortress Town of Gamala in Galilee

The View of the Sea of Galilee from the Fortress of Gamala

“The Legacy of the Jewish Freedom Fighters in the Ancestors of Jesus”

Chapter Seven

Topics

Gamla, the Home of the Jewish Resistance Movement

The Home of Mary Magdalene, Mount Arbel and the Links to the Jewish Resistance

The Synergistic Influence of the Family of Matthan ben Eleazar and the “Bandit”, Hezekiah ben Guron

The “Twin” Brothers of Prince Joseph – Princes Ptolas and Clopas

Family of Prince Matthan ben Eliezar

The Revolt of Hezekiah and Judas the Zealot Brothers of Patriarch Jacob

The Revolt of Athronges the Shepherd in the Year of 4 BCE

The Two Cousins on Trial – Jesus or Barabbas?

Lineages

Family of Prince Matthan ben Eliezar

Where Prince Matthan ben Eliezar lived we have no direct evidence to date, but the genealogy and history suggests that his family may have lived in the hilltop fortress of Gamla. Matthan’s first born son, Jacob, became the Patriarch of the Jerusalem Patriarchate. He lived in Jerusalem as the first of the Abiudite Davidian Lineage Princes to achieve such predominance in Jewish governance since the days of the Persian Governor Nehemiah and his descendants, who also served as Persian Governors of Judea. They were all heirs of Governor Zerubabbel by his 1^st Babylonian wife, Amytis.

Secular history does attest that the second oldest son of Matthan ben Eliezar, Hezekiah the Zealot lived in later years near the western shores of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) at the city of Sepphoris while his younger brother Judas of Gamala kept his identity with his native city of Gamla, on the eastern side of Galilean Sea. The evidence suggests…(Click to Open the Article, “The Legacy of the Jewish Freedom Fighters in the Ancestors of Jesus”)

Book Two

The History of the Jews surrounding the Princes of David

The Model of the Temple of Herod and the city of Jerusalem during the Time of Jesus the Messiah

“The Maccabees and the Abomination of Desolation”

Chapter One

Topics

In the Years Surrounding the Abomination of Desolation

The Heavenly Expulsion of Heliodorus from Confiscating the Temple Treasuries

The Heliodorus Stele and the Abomination of Desolation

The Lineage of the House of Zadok

The Jewish Priest-Kings of the Hasmoneans

The Lineage of the Hasmonean (Maccabee) Rulers

The Rise of the Hasmonean Jewish State

The First Hasmonean Civil War

The Davidian Challenge to the Rule of the Maccabees

Judah ben Simon II and Jesus bar Panther

Lineages of Davidian Rivals, Jesus Bar-Panthera and Judah III ben Simon II

The Second Jewish Civil War-Rise of Rome (Edom) and Herodians (Idumeans)

The Arrival of the Roman Pompey the Great (63 BCE)

The Ascendency of the Idumeans (47 BCE) – Antipater and Herod

Herod the Great

The Marriages and Heirs of King Herod the Great

The High Priest Boethus and the Return of the Zadokian High Priests

The Exiled Zadokian Ancestors of High Priest Boethus

Husbands of Princess Cleopatra VIII of Jerusalem

Fading Years of the All-Jewish Lineages of the Hasmoneans and Princes of King David

The Messiah as a Part of God’s Divine Will

Lineages

The Lineage of the House of Zadok

The Lineage of the Hasmonean (Maccabee) Rulers

Lineages of Davidian Rivals, Jesus Bar-Panthera and Judah III ben Simon II

The Marriages and Heirs of King Herod the Great

The Exiled Zadokian Ancestors of High Priest Boethus

Husbands of Princess Cleopatra VIII of Jerusalem

The years prior to the infamous Abomination of Desolation in 165 BCE when the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem was desecrated and defiled, were years of turmoil. It all began between the Syrian Greek Seleucid Empire and the new imperial power of Rome, when the Syrians began to move into the geo-political sphere of the future expanding Roman Empire.

Onias III, the grandson of the famous High Priest Simon the Great, became the Jewish high priest in the days of Seleucus IV Pilopator. Seleucus IV succeeded his father, Antiochus III the Great in 187 BCE only four years after his expansion into Greece. This was all instigated by Hannibal, the brilliant Carthagenian military commander who almost defeated Rome in the Second Punic War. He was now living in exile in Syria as the military advisor in the royal court of Antiochus III. With 10,500 troops and some allied forces, the Seleucid military forces met the 22,000 Roman military phalanxes escorted by a few elephants…(Click to Open the Article, “The Maccabees and the Abomination of Desolation”)

aposdtc.jpg - 36.2 K The Traditional Tomb of King David

“The Fulfillment of the Covenant of King David and Solomon by King Josiah and the Prophet Jeremiah”

Chapter Two

Topics

The Covenant of God with Kings David and Solomon

The Ten Wives and Twenty Three Children of King David

The Failure of King Solomon and the Kings of Judah to Keep the Commandments and Judgments of God

The Solomonic Lineage from King David to Zerubabbel, as Documented in the Matthew Genealogy of Jesus (Yehoshua)

The Reformation of Good King Josiah and the Prophet Jeremiah

The Prophetic Mandate of King Josiah and the Prophet Jeremiah to Hide the Treasures of Solomon in Order to Save them for the End of Days

The National Revival to the Torah under King Josiah

The Royal Family of King Josiah – the Last Kings of Judah

Who was Jeremias of Libnah?

King Jeconiah, the First of the Jewish Exilarchs in Babylon

The Fall of Jerusalem – 586 BCE

King Jeconiah in Exile

The Ancestral Lineage of the Babylonian Princess Amytis

Lineages

The Ten Wives and Twenty Three Children of King David

The Solomonic Lineage from King David to Zerubabbel, as Documented in the Matthew Genealogy of Jesus (Yehoshua)

The Royal Family of King Josiah – the Last Kings of Judah

The Ancestral Lineage of the Babylonian Princess Amytis

The Covenant of God with Kings David and Solomon

The hope for the existence of the Jewish people, in fact, for all descendants of the Israelites, whether they know they are Israelites or not, is that the messiah of the world will come through the genes of Kings David and Solomon. This is the foundation of the entire legacy of the messianic hope of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This hope and the fact of its reality in the mind of King David are outlined in David’s understanding of his covenant that the God of Israel gave to him. In private consultation with his youngest son, Prince Jedidiah, King David gave this promise of the God of Israel to him with its warnings and its conditions. This young Prince Jedidiah, when he ascended upon the throne of David, took the royal name of King Solomon. Here were the father’s words to his youngest son from his 10^th and last and beloved wife, Bathsheba…(Click to Open the Article, “The Fulfillment of the Covenant of King David and Solomon by King Josiah and the Prophet Jeremiah”)

The Modern View of the Kidron Valley and the Mount of Olives beyond from the View of the Site of King David’s Palace –

Photo by Robert Mock

“Princess Tamar - the Dynastic Merging of the Lineages of Solomon and Nathan”

Chapter Three

Topics

The Amazing Cross-Over Dynastic Merge between the Houses of Solomon and Nathan

The Senior Descent Lineage from King Solomon to Queen Tamar, the wife of King Jeconiah

The Royal Kings of Judah in Order from King David to King Jeconiah

The Blotted Out Ancestors in the Genealogy of Yehoshua (Jesus)

Expanded Lineage of the Royal Family from King Uzziah to King Zedekiah

The Gospel of Luke Lineage of the non-Royal House of Nathan to Zerubabbel

The Solomonic Senior Descent Lineage from Queen Tamar, the wife of King Jeconiah, to the Twin Princes, Tobit and Onaid

Prince Johanan – Heir to the Parallel Davidian Lineage in the British Isles

The Non-Inclusion of Princess’ Names in the Royal “Chronicles” of Judah

Influence of Queen Tamar on the Genealogy of Mary’s Ancestors

The Cross-Over Dynastic Heiress Transfer from Nathan’s Non-Royal Lineage to Solomon’s Royal Lineage

The Davidian Lineage through the Nasi and Prince of Israel, Hillel the Great

The “Last Days” of the Kingdom of Judah

The Primary Lineage of Prince Gedaliah

The Secondary Lineage of Prince Gedaliah

The Primary Lineage of Prince Ishmael