The Law
Law of Moses
Ant 3.10.4 244
Reading of the Law at the Festival
Ant. 4.8.12 209
The First Temple Period
Solomon moves the Ark of the Covenant into the New Temple
Ant 8.4.1 100
The First Sacrifices in the Temple
Ant 8.4.5 123
Jeroboam Becomes King
Ant 8.8.4 225 & 8.8.5 230
The Second Temple Period
Sukkot observed by Zerubbabel after Returning from Babylon; first sacrifices
Ant 11.4.1 77
(under Darius)
Esdras reads the law of Moses (3 Esdras 9:37-55) (under Xerxes)
Ant 11.5.5 154
The Hasmoneans
King Jonathan the Hasmonean becomes High Priest (appointed by Demetrius)
Ant. 13.2.3 46
Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus Make Peace
Ant. 13.8.2 241
Antigonus' Display at Sukkot Leads to his Murder by his Brother Aristobulus
War 1.3.2 73
Uprising against Alexander Jannaeus (c. 60? BCE)
Attempts to officiate at ceremony as high priest; the people consider
him unfit, pelt him with etrogs.
Ant. 13.13.5 372
Aristobulus, brother of Mariamme, becomes High Priest,
attends altar at Sukkot, drawing the jealousy of Herod, who kills him
Ant 15.3.3 50
The Revolt Against Rome
Jesus son of Ananus begins doomsaying four years before the war. "The
cry was loudest at the festivals."
W 6.5.3 300
Beginning of the War: Cestius Advances on Jerusalem (66 CE)
War 2.19.1 515
Gamala overthrown at end of Sukkot
War 4.1.9 63 & 83
[But this is noted only by the date, Tishri 22, not by mention of the
festival.]
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