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.
Look at other dictionaries:
HEROD II — (d. 48 C.E.), grandson of herod the Great and Mariamne the Hasmonean; son of Aristobulus and brother of agrippa i ; king of Chalcis 41–48 C.E. The emperor Claudius granted Herod the kingdom of chalcis in the Lebanon in 41 C.E. In 45 C.E. he and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SIMEON BEN BOETHUS — (surnamed Cantheras), high priest, appointed by Agrippa I in succession to Theophilus b. Anan. According to Josephus, Simeon s two brothers were also high priests, as was his father, Boethus, who because of his daughter Miriam (Mariamne) was… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
KIMḤIT — KIMḤIT, high priestly family in the last years of the Second Temple. Although the Talmud states: Kimḥit had seven sons, each of whom served as high priest (TJ, Meg. 1:12, 72a; Yoma 47a), the only members of the family known as such were: SIMEON… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
