Onias I

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Onias I (Hebrew: חוניו ; Honiyya or Honio ben Jaddua) was the son of the Jaddua mentioned in Nehemiah.[1] According to Josephus, this Jaddua is said to have been a contemporary of Alexander the Great (reigned 336-323 BCE).[2] I Maccabees regards Onias as a contemporary of the Spartan king Areus I (309-265 BCE).[3] "Josephus is ... mistaken in placing it in the time of Onias III instead of Onias I, who was high priest c. 300 B.C. (cf. Ant. xi. 347)."[4]

Simon the Just extolled in the Wisdom of Sirach[5] (according to the Hebrew text the son of Jonathan, but according to the Greek text the son of Onias) and in legend was probably the son of Onias I or, according to some, of the latter's grandson Onias II.

Patrilineal Ancestry[]

Patrilineal descent
  1. Abraham
  2. Isaac
  3. Jacob
  4. Levi
  5. Kehath
  6. Amram
  7. Aaron
  8. Eleazar
  9. Phinehas
  10. Abishua
  11. Bukki
  12. Uzzi
  14. Meraioth
  15. Amariah
  17. Zadok
  18. Ahimaaz
  19. Azariah
  20. Yohanan
  21. Azariah II
  22. Amariah
  23. Ahitub
  24. Zadok II
  25. Shallum
  26. Hilkiah
  27. Azariah
  28. Seraiah
  29. Jehozadak
  30. Joshua the High Priest
  31. Joiakim
  32. Eliashib
  33. Joiada
  34. Johanan
  35. Jaddua

References[]

  1. ^ Nehemiah xii. 11
  2. ^ Jewish Antiquities xi. 8, § 7
  3. ^ I Macc. xii. 7, 8, 20
  4. ^ Antiquities of the Jews xii. 225, Loeb note (e)
  5. ^ Sirach Chapter 50

Resources[]

  • 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).
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard James Horatio Gottheil; Samuel Krauss (1901–1906). "Onias". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
Jewish titles
Preceded by High Priest of Israel
Late 4th or early 3rd century BC 		Succeeded by
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