In the first, Mary is affianced to Jochanan, disciple of Simeon Ben Schetah. Now Schimon or Simeon, son of Scheta, is a well‐known character. He is said to have strangled eighty witches in one day, and to have been the companion of Jehudu Ben Tabai. He flourished B.C. 70. In the second life we hear of Mary being the sister of Simeon Ben Kalpus (Chelptu). He also is a well‐known Rabbi, of whom many miracles are related. He lived in the time of the Emperor Antoninus, before whom he stood as a disciple, when an old man (circ. A.D. 160). In this also the Rabbi Akiba is introduced. Akiba died A.D. 135. Also the Rabbi Jehoshua Ben Levi. Now this Rabbi’s date can also be fixed with tolerable accuracy. He was the teacher of the Rabbi Jochanan, who compiled the Jerusalem Talmud. His date is A.D. 220. We have thus, in the two lives of Jeschu, the following personages introduced as contemporaries: I. II. Jeschu born (date given), B.C. Herod the Great, B.C. 70‐4. 910. Alexander Jannaeus, B.C. R. Jehoshua Ben Perachia, _c._ 106‐79. B.C. 90. R. Simeon Ben Schetach, B.C. R. Akiba, A.D. 135. 70. R. Papus Ben Jehuda, _c._ A.D. 140. R. Jehoshua Ben Levi, _c._ A.D. 220. The second Toledoth Jeschu closes with, “These are the words of Jochanan Ben Zaccai;” but it is not clear whether it is intended that the book should be included in “The words of Jochanan,” or whether the reference is only to a brief sentence preceding this statement, “Therefore have they no part or lot in Israel. The Lord bless his people Israel with peace.” Jochanan Ben Zaccai was a priest and ruler of Israel for forty years, from A.D. 30 or 33 to A.D. 70 or 73. He died at Jamnia, near Jerusalem (Jabne of the Philistines), and was buried at Tiberias. Nor are these anachronisms the only proofs of the ignorance of the composers of the two anti‐evangels. In the first, on the death of King Alexander Jannaeus, the government falls into the hands of his wife Helena, who is represented as being “also called Oleina, and was the mother of King Mumbasius, afterwards called Hyrcanus, who was killed by his servant Herod.” The wife of Alexander Jannaeus was Alexandra, not Helena; she reigned from B.C. 79 to B.C. 71. She was the mother of Hyrcanus and Aristobulus; but was quite distinct from Oleina, mother of Mumbasius, and Mumbasius was a very different person from Hyrcanus. Oleina was a queen of Adiabene in Assyria. The first Life refers to the Talmud: “This is the same Mary who dressed and curled women’s hair, mentioned several times in the Talmud.” Both give absurd anecdotes to account for monks wearing shaven crowns; both reasons are different.