11. Jonathan. Either an alternate name for Johanan (see 22, 23) or the result of a copyist’s error. Johanan is confirmed by the Elephantine papyri as high priest in 410 (see 80, 372), probably also in 407, when the papyri containing his name were written.
Josephus, who speaks of him as Jannaeus (John), says that he murdered his own brother, Jesus (Jeshua, or Joshua), in the Temple, when Jeshua attempted to wrest the high priesthood from him through the influence of the Persians. This in turn gave Bagoas, the general of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon), an opportunity to take severe measures against the Jews (Antiquities xi. 7. 1). This information may be correct, for the Elephantine papyri give the name of the Persian governor in Johanan’s time as Bigvai, the Persian equivalent of the Greek Bagoas or Bagoses.
Jaddua. See 372. Unless this list omits a generation or two (see on 1), the Jaddua of Alexander’s days mentioned by Josephus (Antiquities xi. 8. 4, 5) was probably another individual, possibly a son or grandson of this Jaddua.