Again, there is a jewish tale of a jesus who was executed during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus ( who died in 76 BC). As I have so often mentioned what is intriguing here is the line in so called 2 Corinthians 11,
since there is no record of Damascus being under Nabatean rule once the Romans took it in 64 BC this can only be a reference to the activities of Aretas III who did control Damascus between 84 and 64 BC and who thus did overlap the reign of Alexander Jannaeus.
Quote:32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me. 33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
since there is no record of Damascus being under Nabatean rule once the Romans took it in 64 BC this can only be a reference to the activities of Aretas III who did control Damascus between 84 and 64 BC and who thus did overlap the reign of Alexander Jannaeus.
