Onias

Family: Judean · Role: high priest · First appears: Book I, Chapter 1

Onias, a Judean high priest, fled to Ptolemy VI and received a place from him in the Nomus of Heliopolis. In Book VII, Chapter 10, he is identified as the son of Simon and as having fled Antiochus when the king of Syria made war with the Jews; Ptolemy then granted his proposal and gave him a place one hundred and eighty furlongs from Memphis.

Around c. 72, in Egypt, Ptolemy permitted Onias to build a temple. In the Nomos of Hellopolis, Onias built a fortress and a temple “not like to that at Jerusalem, but such as resembled a tower.”

Relationship record

Life events

• c. 72 · Ptolemy granted Onias permission to build a temple in Egypt.(Book VII, Chapter 10 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Ptolemy Lathyrus
  • “So Ptolemy complied with his proposals, and gave him a place one hundred and eighty furlongs distant from Memphis.”
• c. 72 · Onias built a fortress and temple in the Nomos of Hellopolis.(Book VII, Chapter 10 · 📍 Nomos of Hellopolis)
  • “That Nomos was called the Nomos of Hellopolis, where Onias built a fortress and a temple, not like to that at Jerusalem, but such as resembled a tower.”

Book I, Chapter 1

• patron: Ptolemy VI “But Onias, the high priest, fled to Ptolemy, and received a place from him in the Nomus of Heliopolis”

Book VII, Chapter 10

• parent: Simon (unresolved ch109) “Onias, the son of Simon, one of the Jewish high priests fled from Antiochus the king of Syria, when he made war with the Jews”
• enemies with Antiochus “Onias, the son of Simon, one of the Jewish high priests fled from Antiochus the king of Syria, when he made war with the Jews”
• patron: Ptolemy (patron opposed to Antiochus) “So Ptolemy complied with his proposals, and gave him a place one hundred and eighty furlongs distant from Memphis.”
• with Antiochus (Onias fled from Antiochus during Antiochus's war against the Jews.) “Onias, the son of Simon, one of the Jewish high priests fled from Antiochus the king of Syria, when he made war with the Jews”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.