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Format: 1 online resource (543 p.)

ISBN: 9783110593358

Series Statement: Rethinking Diaspora ; 4

Content: Priests in Exile is the first comprehensive scholarly opus in English to reconstruct the history of the mysterious Temple of Onias, a Jewish temple built by a Jerusalemite high priest in his Egyptian exile that functioned in parallel with the Temple of Jerusalem. Piotrkowski’s book addresses a topic that is mysterious, important and anomalous: a Jewish community of mercenary priests in the (Egyptian) Diaspora in which the priestly sacrificial ritual was carried out daily over a period of more than two hundred years until the first century CE, outlasting the Jerusalem Temple by about three years. Although the book focuses on the very circumscribed topic of the parallel Temple it casts a wide net, placing the story in the context of Jewish Diaspora life in ancient times. Ancient topics and texts are brought to bear, including papyri, epigraphy, archaeology, as well as the modern literature. Piotrkowski throws new light on a fascinating episode of ancient Jewish history that is usually left in the dark.

Note: 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 , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110591125

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110591071

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110593358

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110593358