Chapter 9: Re-evaluating 3 Maccabees: An Oniad Composition?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents xi
4. List of Abbreviations xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: The Sources on the Temple of Onias
7. Chapter 1: Flavius Josephus and Oniad History 27
8. Chapter 2: The Second Book of Maccabees and Oniad History 108
9. Postscript: Theodore of Mopsuestia 124
10. Chapter 3: The Book of Daniel 128
11. Postscript: The Silence of the Lambs: The ‘Animal Apocalypse’ and the Death of Onias III (1 Enoch 90:8) 133
12. Chapter 4: The Rabbis and the Temple of Onias 135
13. Chapter 5: Archaeology and the Temple of Onias 163
14. Chapter 6: Voices from the “Land of Onias”: Epigraphy and the Oniad Community 169
15. Chapter 7: Onias in the Papyri 198
16. Part II: Jewish Hellenistic Literature and the Temple of Onias
17. Jewish-Hellenistic Literature and the Temple of Onias: An Approach toward Oniad Literature 209
18. Chapter 8: The Third Book of the Sibylline Oracles – An Oniad Book of Prophecy? 215
19. Chapter 9: Re-evaluating 3 Maccabees: An Oniad Composition? 236
20. Chapter 10: Pseudo-Hecataeus: An Oniad Reaction to Hasmonean Kingship? 261
21. Chapter 11: Joseph & Aseneth: Oniad Fiction? 293
22. Part III: The History of the Temple of Onias in the Hellenistic Period
23. Chapter 12: Reconstructing Oniad History: From the Establishment of the Oniad Community in Egypt until the Roman Conquest (168/167 – 31/30 BCE) 325
24. Part IV: Priests in Exile: The Oniad Community and Oniad Judaism
25. Chapter 13: The Temple of Onias and Qumran 367
26. Chapter 14: Priests in Exile: The Oniad Community and Oniad Judaism 397
27. Concluding Oniad History 417
28. Appendicies
29. Appendix 1. A Genealogical Chart of the Oniad Priestly Dynasty 429
30. Appendix 2. Did the Jews of Egypt Pay the Temple Tax to Onias’ Temple? 430
31. Appendix 3. Some Reflections on the Phenomenon of Multiple Jewish Temples 435
32. Appendix 4. IJudO i BS19: A Russian Onias? 443
33. Bibliography 445
34. General Index 481
35. Index of Names 494
36. Index of Places 499
37. Index of Ancient Sources 502