Jonathan Ben Absalom

From Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)

Jonathan Ben Absalom:

By: Richard Gottheil , Samuel Krauss

General of Simon Maccabeus. At the command of the latter he took possession of Joppa, and drove out the inhabitants in order that they might not be able to surrender the city to Ṭarfon (I Macc. xiii. 11; Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 6, § 4).

G. S. Kr.

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