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
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• 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.