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Onias II
Onias II (Hebrew: חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Ḥōniyyō'' or ''Honio'' or ''Honiyya ben Shimon''; Greek: ''Onias Simonides'') was the son of Simon I. He was still a minor when his father died, so that his uncle Eleazar, and after him the latter's uncle Manasseh, officiated as high priests before he himself succeeded to that dignity. According to Josephus Flavius Josephus (; grc-gre, Ἰώσηπος, ; 37 – 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for '' The Jewish War'', who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly d ..., he was a covetous man and of limited intelligence, whose refusal to pay the twenty talents of silver which every high priest was required to pay to the Ptolemaic dynasty, King of Egypt threatened to imperil both the high priest and the people; but at this juncture Joseph, the clever Tobiads, son of Tobias and nephew of Onias, succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III Euergetes (reigned 246 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Onias may refer to: People ( he, חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Honio'', also ''Honiyya'' or ''Honiyahu''), any of several Jewish high priests at the time of the Second Temple, described by such sources as Josephus: * Onias I, son of Jaddua and high priest in the late 4th and early 3rd century BCE *Onias II, son of Simon the Just and probably grandson of Onias I, high priest in the early 2nd century BCE * Onias III, son of Simon II and high priest in the early 2nd century BCE *Onias IV, son of Onias III who was never high priest but built the temple in the Land of Onias * Menelaus (High Priest), who according to Josephus was originally called Onias, second successor and murderer of Onias III *Onias C. Skinner (1817–1877), American jurist and legislator *Onias Mupumha (born 1978), Zimbabwean sculptor Places *The Land of Onias, an area in Ptolemaic Egypt named after Onias IV that was heavily settled by Jews *Alpha Onias III, a planet in the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "Futur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |