Onias I (Hebrew: חוֹנְיוֹ, romanized: Ḥonyo; a.k.a. Honiyya or Honio ben Jaddua) was the son of the Jaddua mentioned in Nehemiah 12:11.[1] According to Josephus, this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great (r. 336–323– BCE).[2] "Josephus is ... mistaken in placing it in the time of Onias III instead of Onias I, who was high priest c. 300 [BCE]".[3][full citation needed] I Maccabees regards Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309–265 BCE).[4]
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Simon the Just extolled in the Wisdom of Sirach.[5] 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.[clarification needed]
Patrilineal ancestry
editReferences
edit- ↑ Nehemiah 12:11
- ↑ Jewish Antiquities xi. 8, § 7
- ↑ Antiquities of the Jews xii. 225, Loeb note (e)
- ↑ I Macc. xii. 7, 8, 20
- ↑ Sirach 50
Resources
edit- 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).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard James Horatio Gottheil; Samuel Krauss (1901–1906). "Onias". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.