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'''Onias I''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: ''Honiyya'' or ''Honio ben Jaddua'') was the son of the [[Jaddua]] mentioned in [[Nehemiah]].<ref>Nehemiah xii. 11</ref> According to [[Josephus]], this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of [[Alexander the Great]].<ref>''[[Jewish Antiquities]]'' xi. 8, § 7</ref> [[I Maccabees]] regards Onias as a contemporary of the [[Sparta]]n king [[Areus I]] (309-265 BCE).<ref>I Macc. xii. 7, 8, 20</ref> |
'''Onias I''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: חוניו ; ''Honiyya'' or ''Honio ben Jaddua'') was the son of the [[Jaddua]] mentioned in [[Nehemiah]].<ref>Nehemiah xii. 11</ref> According to [[Josephus]], this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of [[Alexander the Great]].<ref>''[[Jewish Antiquities]]'' xi. 8, § 7</ref> [[I Maccabees]] regards Onias as a contemporary of the [[Sparta]]n king [[Areus I]] (309-265 BCE).<ref>I Macc. xii. 7, 8, 20</ref> |
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[[Simon the Just]] extolled in the [[Wisdom of Sirach]]<ref>[[Wisdom of Sirach|Sirach]] Chapter 50</ref> (according to the Hebrew text the son of Jonathan, but according to the Greek text the son of Onias) and in legend was probably the son of Onias I or, according to some, of the latter's grandson [[Onias II]]. |
[[Simon the Just]] extolled in the [[Wisdom of Sirach]]<ref>[[Wisdom of Sirach|Sirach]] Chapter 50</ref> (according to the Hebrew text the son of Jonathan, but according to the Greek text the son of Onias) and in legend was probably the son of Onias I or, according to some, of the latter's grandson [[Onias II]]. |
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Onias I (Hebrew: חוניו ; Honiyya or Honio ben Jaddua) was the son of the Jaddua mentioned in Nehemiah.[1] According to Josephus, this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great.[2] I Maccabees regards Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309-265 BCE).[3]
Simon the Just extolled in the Wisdom of Sirach[4] (according to the Hebrew text the son of Jonathan, but according to the Greek text the son of Onias) and in legend was probably the son of Onias I or, according to some, of the latter's grandson Onias II.
References
Resources
- Gottheil, Richard and Samuel Krauss. "Onias." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906, which cites to the following bibliography:
- H. P. Chajes, Beiträge zur Nordsemitischen Onomatologie, p. 23, Vienna, 1900 (on the name);
- Herzfeld, Gesch. des Volkes Jisrael, i. 185-189, 201-206;
- Heinrich Grätz, Gesch. 2d ed., ii. 236;
- Emil Schürer, Gesch. 3d ed., i. 182, 194-196; iii. 97-100;
- Niese, in Hermes, xxxv. 509;
- Wellhausen, I. J. G. 4th ed., p. 248, Berlin, 1901;
- Willrich, Juden und Griechen vor der Makkabäischen Erhebung, pp. 77, 109, Göttingen, 1895;
- Adolf Büchler, Die Tobiaden und die Oniaden, pp. 166, 240, 275, 353, Vienna, 1899;
- J. P. Mahaffy, The Empire of the Ptolemies, pp. 217, 353, London, 1895;
- Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus, ii. 170-176, Leipsic, 1885;
- Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Dor, i. 130 (on the halakic view of the temple of Onias).
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