Priests in Exile : the History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period.

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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.

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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