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The Oniad Sibyl

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The Oniad community was a mercenary and priestly Jewish settlement in Greco-Roman Egypt. This community recognized an exiled high priest of the Jerusalem Temple as its founder and met its end after...
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  • 14 March 2025
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The Oniad community was a mercenary and priestly Jewish settlement in Greco-Roman Egypt. This community recognized an exiled high priest of the Jerusalem Temple as its founder and met its end after a Mediterranean-wide uprising that shook the foundations of the Roman Empire. This monograph attributes a group of rather puzzling prophetic narratives—filled with coded language, reused lines from Greek and Jewish literature, and confused historical references—to the Oniads. The thesis of this study is that each prophetic treatise responds to crises experienced by the Oniad settlement and, as a result, evidences its unfolding historical consciousness and hybrid literary culture in distinct phases of its existence.
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Price: $114.00
Pages: 196
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha
Publication Date: 14 March 2025
ISBN: 9789004722668
Format: Hardcover
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Miguel M. Vargas, Ph.D. (2022), is a historian of ancient Mediterranean Jewish communities and Greco-Roman religions. His current projects focus on notions of prophecy in blended communities and interactions between ancient Jews and pagans, with an emphasis on cultural contact, exchange, and conflict.