One high-priestly family, the house of Annas, dominated first-century Jerusalem: Annas, his son-in-law Caiaphas, and his son Ananus, who had James the brother of Jesus executed in 62. This dossier follows that house through the Roman execution it brokered, the revolt its members tried to contain, and the fire that ended the priesthood, the Sadducees, and the Temple at once, resting entirely on Josephus, the single narrative witness and a Flavian client, marking where he had reason to shade the account.