Antiquities of the Jews, fit the thirty-first

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XIV.8.131: But it happened that the Egyptian Jews, who dwelt in the country called Onion Onion!? The Greek has "Ὀνίου", so it looks like it's not the English word "onion", but perhaps a land named after the temple established by Onias (חוֹנִיּוֹ)?

XIV.9.172 relates how when Hyrcanus II had brought Herod, as a fifteen year old, to trial before the Sanhedrin, Herod turned up with his own private bodyguard of men, and no one dared accuse him, except for one man named Sameas: ( But is Sameas Shammai or Shemaiah? )

( And which well-known Sage is Pollio the Pharisee? )

Josephus spends the whole of Book XIV ch.10 relating the various decrees the Romans made giving the Jews rights. ( Why? )

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Josephus notes

Mushroom soup

Going out on a limb (*gulp*):

Heute habe ich die Pilzsuppe gemacht, dass aviva_m traurich an(?) Pessach vermisst hat. Jetzt muss ich nur nicht die essen, bis sie kommt!

Corrections welcome. (I should possibly embarrass myself do this more.)

And, because I don't want to alienate half my already small readership:

Today I made the cream of mushroom soup that aviva_m sadly missed at Pesach. Now all I have to do is not eat it until she comes!