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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Bet Boethus Family
Write the Great Bookבית בייתוס
(House of Boethus)
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Bet Boethus lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Priestly lineage of Alexandrian origin, elevated by Herod the Great, who married Mariamne II, daughter of Simon ben Boethus. It produced four high priests; the Boethusians formed a sect close to the Sadducees.
Geographic origin: Jérusalem
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Bet Boethus lineage has not yet been written.
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bet-boethus">Bet Boethus — Zakhor</a>Citation
Bet Boethus — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/bet-boethusVariants of the name (2)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin1
Boéthusiens
עברית · Hebrew1
בית בייתוס
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Notable figures
- 1.
Simon ben Boethus
Grand prêtre sous Hérode
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Bet Boethus.
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Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Diaspora regions
ÉgypteJudée
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Bet Boethus give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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