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| Title: The origins and objectives of Onias' temple Secondary Title: SCI Volume: 16 Pages: 47-70 Type: Journal Article Year: 1997/1998 Abstract: in: AnPh 68 (1997), 980: "The main source on the temple that Onias founded in Leontopolis in Egypt around the mid-2-nd cent. B.C. is Josephus, who gibes two divergent accounts in his "Bellum Judaicum" (1, 31-33 and 7, 421-432) and in the "Antiquitates" (12, 237-239). Unfortunately both versions are extremely muddled and full of inconsistencies and provide neither a clear chronology nor a meaningful understanding of the circumstances. The two letters addressed by Jews to their kinsmen in Egypt in the preface of 2 Maccabees do not imply that the problems in Egypt stem from a schismatic temple and thus support the hypothesis that Onias' temple was a reinforcement of Jerusalem rather than a breakaway cult or a challenge to the authorities in the homeland". |