Jonathan and the High Priestly Office: 159–152 B.C.E.

Updated by: 
Oren Ableman
Research notes: 
Reader Checked OA 12/05/2014 hw/not checked/31/03/2014
Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Babota, Vasile
year: 
2014
Full title: 

Jonathan and the High Priestly Office: 159–152 B.C.E.

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
The Institution of the Hasmonean High Priesthood
Issue / Series Volume: 
165
Series Title: 
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Abbreviated Series Name: 
JSJSup
Place of Publication: 
Leiden
Publisher: 
Brill
Pages: 
119-139
Chapter: 
5
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Vasile Babota, Pontifical Gregorian University & Pontifical Beda College
In The Institution of the Hasmonean High Priesthood, Vasile Babota offers an interdisciplinary study of the establishment of the Hasmonean priests as high priests in Jerusalem, from their revolt in 167 down to 140. The Hasmonean high priests exercised both religious and civil powers until 37 B.C.E. and some acted also as kings. Previous studies looked at them mainly from a biblical /Jewish perspective. Vasile Babota persuasively argues that the first high priests Jonathan and Simon acted as Hellenistic high priestly rulers. This conclusion is based on an analysis of the activity of the high priests Jonathan and Simon on internal and external levels, a comparison with earlier Jewish high priests, and a comparison with Hellenistic (Seleucid and Ptolemaic) high priests.

URL: 
http://www.brill.com/products/book/institution-hasmonean-high-priesthood
Label: 
14/04/2014
Record number: 
97 816