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Priests in Exile - The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Hardcover)
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Priests in Exile - The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period (Hardcover)
Series: Studia Judaica
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Priests in Exile is the first comprehensive scholarly opus in
English to reconstruct the history of the mysterious Temple of
Onias, a Jewish temple built by a Jerusalemite high priest in his
Egyptian exile that functioned in parallel with the Temple of
Jerusalem. Piotrkowski's book addresses a topic that is mysterious,
important and anomalous: a Jewish community of mercenary priests in
the (Egyptian) Diaspora in which the priestly sacrificial ritual
was carried out daily over a period of more than two hundred years
until the first century CE, outlasting the Jerusalem Temple by
about three years. Although the book focuses on the very
circumscribed topic of the parallel Temple it casts a wide net,
placing the story in the context of Jewish Diaspora life in ancient
times. Ancient topics and texts are brought to bear, including
papyri, epigraphy, archaeology, as well as the modern literature.
Piotrkowski throws new light on a fascinating episode of ancient
Jewish history that is usually left in the dark.
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