The King of the Persepolis Tablets the Nineteenth Year of Artaxerxes I

Abstract

only mention in Josephus of any Persian king between Artaxerxes I Longimanus and Darius III Codomannus, it is altogether probable that his "general" was the celebrated officer of Artaxerxes III and that he confused him with the one who opposed Johanan, entered the temple, and imposed the severe fine on the Jews. In the time previous to the find of the letters from Yeb it had naturally been customary to identify the Bagoas of Antt. xi. 7. 1 with the arpaTr'ybs of Ochus, but the new evidence has changed the situation. I can see no reason for believing that the Bagahi of the Elephantine correspondence and of the Johanan-Jeshua tragedy was in Judea at all in the time of Artaxerxes II.