Divrei Yosippon — Sefer Yosippon — Chapter 86: A Mother’s Cruel Act

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86:1

Famine reaches a point where ordinary human bonds are overturned.

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86:2

A mother, remembered in Josephus tradition as Miryam daughter of Eleazar, kills and eats part of her own infant.

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86:3

Rebels recoil when they discover the act, and news reaches the Romans.

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86:4

The episode functions as the chronicle’s most terrible sign that siege, faction, and hunger have destroyed the normal order of life.

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