ELIONAEUS, SON OF CANTHERAS

ELIONAEUS, SON OF CANTHERAS
ELIONAEUS, SON OF CANTHERAS (or Cithaerus), high priest 43–44 C.E. Elionaeus was appointed by agrippa i . It is not clear whether he is to be identified with the "Cantheras" who was deposed by Herod of Chalcis and was succeeded by Joseph, the son of Camei (Kimḥit; Jos., Ant., 20:16). The Mishnah refers to him as Elioneiai b. ha-Kof (Par. 3:5), one of the few high priests who prepared the ashes of the red heifer . -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jos., Ant., 19:342; Schuerer, Gesch, 2 (19074), 271, no. 19; Klausner, Bayit Sheni, 4 (19502), 300ff. (Edna Elazary)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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