Priests in exile: the history of the temple of Onias and its community in the Hellenistic period
Frontmatter --Preface and Acknowledgements --Contents --List of Abbreviations --Introduction --Part I: The Sources on the Temple of Onias --Chapter 1: Flavius Josephus and Oniad History --Chapter 2: The Second Book of Maccabees and Oniad History --Postscript: Theodore of Mopsuestia --Chapter 3: The...
| Zusammenfassung: | Frontmatter --Preface and Acknowledgements --Contents --List of Abbreviations --Introduction --Part I: The Sources on the Temple of Onias --Chapter 1: Flavius Josephus and Oniad History --Chapter 2: The Second Book of Maccabees and Oniad History --Postscript: Theodore of Mopsuestia --Chapter 3: The Book of Daniel --Postscript: The Silence of the Lambs: The 'Animal Apocalypse' and the Death of Onias III (1 Enoch 90:8) --Chapter 4: The Rabbis and the Temple of Onias --Chapter 5: Archaeology and the Temple of Onias --Chapter 6: Voices from the "Land of Onias": Epigraphy and the Oniad Community --Chapter 7: Onias in the Papyri --Part II: Jewish Hellenistic Literature and the Temple of Onias --Jewish-Hellenistic Literature and the Temple of Onias: An Approach toward Oniad Literature --Chapter 8: The Third Book of the Sibylline Oracles -- An Oniad Book of Prophecy? --Chapter 9: Re-evaluating 3 Maccabees: An Oniad Composition? --Chapter 10: Pseudo-Hecataeus: An Oniad Reaction to Hasmonean Kingship? --Chapter 11: Joseph & Aseneth: Oniad Fiction? --Part III: The History of the Temple of Onias in the Hellenistic Period --Chapter 12: Reconstructing Oniad History: From the Establishment of the Oniad Community in Egypt until the Roman Conquest (168/167 -- 31/30 BCE) --Part IV: Priests in Exile: The Oniad Community and Oniad Judaism --Chapter 13: The Temple of Onias and Qumran --Chapter 14: Priests in Exile: The Oniad Community and Oniad Judaism --Concluding Oniad History --Appendicies --Appendix 1. A Genealogical Chart of the Oniad Priestly Dynasty --Appendix 2. Did the Jews of Egypt Pay the Temple Tax to Onias' Temple? --Appendix 3. Some Reflections on the Phenomenon of Multiple Jewish Temples --Appendix 4. IJudO i BS19: A Russian Onias? --Bibliography --General Index --Index of Names --Index of Places --Index of Ancient Sources The series focuses on the evolution of Jewish language, literature, communal life and religious ideology outside of the Land of Israel and in relation to it. The approach is inter-disciplinary with an emphasis on mutual influences between Jews and their non-Jewish environment. The series welcomes studies that span different periods and a variety of geographical areas |
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| ISBN: | 3110593351 |