Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
תרביץ
Angaben zur Quelle:
עג,ד (תשסד) 517-554
Keywords:
יוסף בן מתתיהו פלויוס.
;
מנסאס
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Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) Legends
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Greek literature, Hellenistic History and criticism
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Antisemitism History To 500
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Idumaea (Hasmonean province) Ethnic relations
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History
Abstract:
Discusses the source of a humiliating libel against the Jews in the ancient period, which claimed that a statue of an ass stood in the Temple in Jerusalem. In the Latin translation of Josephus's "Contra Apionem", Apion traces its origin to ca. 200 BCE, when Mnaseas of Patara wrote in his lexicon that the head of a golden ass was stolen from the Temple by an Idumaean from Adorayim (Dura), who disguised himself as Apollo. Contends that the source of the story was probably Idumaean, since there were tensions between Israelites and Idumaeans during the Hellenistic period. States that Mnaseas, who was born in Lycia and lived in Alexandria, was probably not an antisemite, and that he reported the story because it was amusing. His works, like those of his teacher Eratosthenes and some other Greek writers in Egypt, contained a mixture of history and mythology, and were written to entertain readers. Discusses different versions of the story, which was later used by Apion and other Roman writers to humiliate the Jews.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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