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High Priest Succession and Hellenistic Influence in Judea
The text recounts Onias II dying c AD 306.5 and Simon I’s succession, the rise of Eleazar as next kin, and Ptolemy I’s establishment of Alexandria with Jewish settlers. It notes Greek translation of the Pentateuch under Ptolemy II and later Prophets translations amid Antiochus Epiphanes, shaping Hebrew Scriptures into Greek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onias
Simon I
Babylon
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Malachi
Alexander
Egypt
Syria
Judea
Ptolemy I
Lagi
Laguss
Sofer
Demetrius
Ptolemy
Alexandria
Seleucus
Greater
Asia
Antioch
Simon
Eleazar
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Moses
Antiochus Epiphanes