The development of the high priesthood during the pre-Hasmonean period : history, ideology, theology / / by Maria Brutti.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, v. 108
• Author: Brutti, Maria.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- PART ONE PRELIMINARY ISSUES -- Chapter One The Sources -- 1.1 First Maccabees -- 1.1.1 Unity and Structure -- 1.1.2 Date and Author -- 1.2 Second Maccabees -- 1.2.1 Unity and Structure -- 1.2.2 Date and Author -- 1.2.3 Historical Reliability of Books I and II -- 1.3 Flavius Josephus -- 1.3.1 The Jewish War -- 1.3.2 Jewish Antiquities -- 1.3.3 Against Apion -- 1.4 Assessment of the Historiographic Sources -- 1.5 Other Sources -- 1.5.1 Hecataeus of Abdera -- 1.5.2 The Letter of Aristeas -- 1.5.3 The Book of Sirach -- 1.5.4 The Book of Daniel -- 1.6 Epigraphic Sources -- Chapter Two Philological Issues -- 2.1 Origins and Evolution of the Word αρχιερευς -- 2.1.1 Epigraphic Sources -- 2.1.2 Historiographic Sources -- 2.1.3 Conclusions -- 2.2 The Chief-Priests and the Deputy High Priest -- 2.3 The meaning of the terms πρoστατης-πρoστασíα -- Chapter Three Historical Identity and Succession of the High Priests -- 3.1 The High Priests in the Books of the Maccabees -- 3.2 Jewish Antiquities and the Lists of High Priests -- 3.2.1 The Question of Simon I or Simon II -- 3.2.2 The "Onias" High Priests -- 3.2.3 The Issue of the High Priests' Succession -- 3.3 The "Absence" of the High Priests -- 3.3.1 The letter from Areius to Onias (1 Macc 12, 20) -- 3.4 The "αρχιερευς" Ezechias -- 3.5 The Period of the Intersacerdotium -- 3.5.1 The Teacher of Righteousness as High Priest? -- 3.6 Excursus: Zadok's Tradition -- 3.6.1 The "Zadokite" Descent of the High Priests -- 3.6.2 The ριτς -- 3.7 Part One: Conclusion -- Table of the High Priests of the pre-Hasmonean Age -- Reconstruction Hypotheses -- PART TWO RECONSTRUCTION -- Chapter Four The Rule of the Ptolemies and the Jewish High Priest -- 4.1 The Ptolemies and the Administration of Syria-Phoenicia.

4.2 The situation of Judea under the Ptolemies -- 4.2.1 ÚM][' yxeyriP -- ynEb]W -- 4.2.2 Hypothesis Outline -- 4.3 Hecataeus of Abdera and the High Priesthood -- 4.4 Eleazar in the Letter of Aristeas and in Flavius Josephus -- 4.5 Onias II and the issue of the πρoστασία -- Chapter Five The Rule of the Seleucids and the Jewish High Priest -- 5.1 The Seleucids and the Administration of Coele-Syria -- 5.1.1 The στρατηγòς καί αρχιερευς Ptolemy of Thraseas -- 5.2 The Jews of the Diaspora under the first Seleucids -- 5.3 Antiochus III and the Juridical Status of the Jews -- 5.4 Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Issue of Persecution -- 5.4.1 The Documents of the Persecution -- 5.4.2 The Narratives of the Persecution -- 5.4.3 The Interpretation of the Persecution -- 5.4.4 The testimony of Daniel (9,26 -- 11,30) -- 5.5 Simon ˆhkh and ιερευς o μέγας -- 5.6 Onias III in 2 Maccabees and Flavius Josephus -- 5.6.1 Onias' Death and the Foundation of the Temple in Leontopolis -- 5.7 The "Hellenizers" high priests: Jason and Menelaus -- 5.7.1 The Nature of Jason's Reforms -- 5.7.2 Menelaus and the Akra -- 5.8 The High Priesthood of Alcimus -- 5.8.1 The Nature of Alcimus' High Priesthood -- 5.8.2 Alcimus and the Hasideans -- 5.8.3 Alcimus and the Syrian Government -- PART THREE SYNTHESIS: DEVELOPMENT AND DECLINE OF AN INSTITUTION -- Chapter Six The Autonomy and Powers of the High Priests -- 6.1 The High Priest and the People -- 6.2 The High Priest and the Foreign Sovereign -- 6.3 Territorial Autonomy of the High Priest -- 6.4 The Hypothesis of the Πoλίτευμα and the Πάτριoι Nóμoι -- Chapter Seven Ideological and Theological Re-reading -- 7.1 The High Priest and the Temple -- 7.2 The Temple and the High Priest -- 7.3 Simon and the Covenant of the Eternal Priesthood -- 7.4 Theology and Ideology in Onias III's "Virtues" -- 7.4.1 ευσέβεια.

7.4.2 ευεργέτης, κηδεμων, ζηλωτής των νóμων -- 7.4.3 καλòς καì αγαθóς -- 7.5 The High Priests and Hellenism -- 7.6 Development or Decline? -- Conclusion -- 1.1 First Part: Preliminary questions -- 1.2 Second part: Reconstruction -- 1.3 Third part: Synthesis -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources.