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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971846903321
• Autore: Brutti Maria
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-39703-2; 9786611397036; 90-474-0875-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Collana: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, , 1384-2161 ; ; v. 108
• Disciplina: 296.4/95
• Soggetti: Jewish high priests - History; Jews - History - 586 B.C.-70 A.D
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book deals with the Jewish High Priesthood between 301-152 BCE. It is of a historical-biblical-theological nature - historical, in as much as it refers to a chronological period and to the historiographic sources, and, biblical and theological because it questions a Biblical institution, its meaning and its religious function. The high priesthood's history is analysed on the basis of few and conflicting documents, starting from the question of power and the autonomy of the high priests under the rule of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids. However, the historical reconstruction is strongly determined by the political ideology and theological vision of the available sources on this subject.