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1 online resource (544 pages). |
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Studia Judaica Ser. ; v. 106
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Studia Judaica Ser.
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| Summary |
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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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 |
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| Subject |
Temple of Onias (Qalyūbīyah, Egypt) -- History.
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Temple of Onias (Qalyūbīyah, Egypt) |
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History. |
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Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.E.-210 C.E.
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Egypt -- Antiquities.
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Egypt. |
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Antiquities. |
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HISTORY -- Jewish. |
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Judaism. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Piotrkowski, Meron M. Priests in Exile : The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period. Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
3110593351 |
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9783110593358 (electronic book) |
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