- JOSHUA BEN PHABI
- JOSHUA BEN PHABI (1st century B.C.E.), high priest. According to Josephus, Herod the Great ousted Phabi from office to replace him by simeon the son of Boethus, an Alexandrian, and father of Herod's wife Mariamne II. The house of Phabi (פואבי ,פיאבי) was a well-known priestly family, and at least two other members, both named ishmael b. phabi , served as high priests (Jos., Ant., 15:322). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Schuerer, Gesch, 2 (19074), 269 n.6. (Isaiah Gafni)
Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.