Ananias ben Onias

Ananias ben Onias

Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, "Hananiya ben Honiyyahu") was the son of the Jewish kohen Onias IV, who founded a Jewish temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV.

Onias won the favor of Ptolemy VI, who gave permission for the building of this temple. [Josephus, "Jewish Antiquities" xiii. 10, § 4.] Ananias and his brother Helkias were held in high esteem by Cleopatra III. Owing to her regard for them, the Judeans of the province Oneion, between Pelusium and Memphis, [compare "Ant." xiv. 8, § 1; "Wars of the Jews" i. 9, § 4] remained true to her when she was abandoned on the island of Cyprus by all her soldiers. [Strabo, quoted by Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 10, § 4.] When she went to Judea to help the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus against her son, Ptolemy Lathyrus, and succeeded in dislodging him (about 100 BCE), Ananias and Helkias were her generals; and Ananias dissuaded her from incorporating Judea as an Egyptian province, at the same time inducing her to form an alliance with Alexander Jannaeus. [Josephus, "Ant." xiii. 13, § 2; Schürer, "Gesch. d. Jüd. Volkes," i. 220.]

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* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1470&letter=A&search=Ananias Büchler, Alexander. "Ananias, Son of Onias IV."] "Jewish Encyclopedia". Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906.

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