UID:
almafu_9960741903302883
Format:
1 online resource (544 pages).
ISBN:
3-11-059112-X
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3-11-059335-1
Series Statement:
Rethinking Diaspora ; 4
Content:
Piotrkowski throws new light on a fascinating episode of ancient Jewish history that is usually left in the dark: the history of the mysterious Temple of Onias. The book focuses on the topic of the parallel Temple and at the same time 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 epigraphy, archaeology, as well as the modern literature.
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 --
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Preface and Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1: Flavius Josephus and Oniad History --
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Chapter 2: The Second Book of Maccabees and Oniad History --
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Postscript: Theodore of Mopsuestia --
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Chapter 3: The Book of Daniel --
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Postscript: The Silence of the Lambs: The 'Animal Apocalypse' and the Death of Onias III (1 Enoch 90:8) --
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Chapter 4: The Rabbis and the Temple of Onias --
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Chapter 5: Archaeology and the Temple of Onias --
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Chapter 6: Voices from the "Land of Onias": Epigraphy and the Oniad Community --
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Chapter 7: Onias in the Papyri --
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Jewish-Hellenistic Literature and the Temple of Onias: An Approach toward Oniad Literature --
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Chapter 8: The Third Book of the Sibylline Oracles - An Oniad Book of Prophecy? --
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Chapter 9: Re-evaluating 3 Maccabees: An Oniad Composition? --
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Chapter 10: Pseudo-Hecataeus: An Oniad Reaction to Hasmonean Kingship? --
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Chapter 11: Joseph & Aseneth: Oniad Fiction? --
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Chapter 12: Reconstructing Oniad History: From the Establishment of the Oniad Community in Egypt until the Roman Conquest (168/167 - 31/30 BCE) --
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Chapter 13: The Temple of Onias and Qumran --
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Chapter 14: Priests in Exile: The Oniad Community and Oniad Judaism --
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Concluding Oniad History --
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Appendix 1. A Genealogical Chart of the Oniad Priestly Dynasty --
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Appendix 2. Did the Jews of Egypt Pay the Temple Tax to Onias' Temple? --
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Appendix 3. Some Reflections on the Phenomenon of Multiple Jewish Temples --
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Appendix 4. IJudO i BS19: A Russian Onias? --
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Bibliography --
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General Index --
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Index of Names --
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Index of Places --
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Index of Ancient Sources
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-059107-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110593358
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110593358
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110593358
