You are not quoting the Babylonian Talmud correctly, Pesahim 57a does not identify Berenice or Agrippa. In fact I've seen this ridiculous assertion before and it is based on poor scholarship and no evidence (always check your sources). The key here is that there is second location (BT KER 28b) where the same story is mentioned and there the king is identified as Janneus, a Hasmonean king who lived about 300 years before Berenice. You should remove the comment as not only is it wrong, it makes you look foolish.

You also quote Josephus as being the source for Berenice's presence in Jerusalem at the time of the destruction of the temple, bald & barefoot from a Nazirite vow but you don't cite the location. I don't think it's Josephus... You might try looking in the new testament (NT Acts 25).

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