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{{kehunah and kohanim}}'''Onias II''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] חוֹנִיּוֹ ''Ḥōniyyō'' '''''Honio''''' or '''''Honiyya ben Shimon'''''; [[Greek language|Greek]] '''Onias Simonides''') was the son of [[Simon the Just]]. 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.<ref>Josephus, "Ant." xii. 4, § 1.</ref> According to Josephus, 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 son of [[Tobias]] and nephew of Onias, succeeded in pacifying [[Ptolemy III]] (Euergetes). Onias is said to have died, almost simultaneously with his nephew Joseph, during the reign of [[Seleucus IV Philopator]], hence about 181 BCE.<ref>''ibid''. § 10.</ref> His successor in office was his son [[Simon II (High Priest)|Simon II]]. |
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Template:Kehunah and kohanimOnias II (Hebrew חוֹנִיּוֹ Ḥōniyyō Honio or Honiyya ben Shimon; Greek Onias Simonides) was the son of Simon the Just. 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.[1] According to Josephus, 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 King of Egypt threatened to imperil both the high priest and the people; but at this juncture Joseph, the clever son of Tobias and nephew of Onias, succeeded in pacifying Ptolemy III (Euergetes). Onias is said to have died, almost simultaneously with his nephew Joseph, during the reign of Seleucus IV Philopator, hence about 181 BCE.[2] His successor in office was his son Simon II.
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- 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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