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Uriah is mentioned in 2 Kings 16:10–16 as a priest who, on orders of King Ahaz, replaces the altar in the temple with a new, Assyrian-style altar. He is also mentioned as a witness in Isaiah 8:2. -Nerias: Neria – contemporary of King Hezekiah: An Azariah is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 31:10 as "the chief priest, of the house of Zadok" under ...
The age of eligibility for the office is not fixed in the Torah; but according to rabbinical tradition it was twenty. [40] (For comparison, Levites began working at age 30. [41]) Aristobulus, however, was only seventeen when appointed by Herod the Great; [42] but the son of Onias III was too young (νήπιος) to succeed his father. [43]
Following the Temple's destruction at the end of the First Jewish–Roman War and the displacement to the Galilee of the bulk of the remaining Jewish population in Judea at the end of the Bar Kochba revolt, Jewish tradition in the Talmud and poems from the period record that the descendants of each priestly watch established a separate residential seat in towns and villages of the Galilee, and ...
Later Jewish sources even discuss the possibility that Melchitzedek's family could have served as priests for the future Jewish nation, though in the end this did not happen. [14] Jewish priests are first mentioned in Exodus 19. Here God offered the entire Jewish people the opportunity to become a symbolic "kingdom of priests and a holy nation ...
The Messiah in Judaism means anointed one; it included Jewish priests, prophets and kings such as David and Cyrus the Great. [1] Later, especially after the failure of the Hasmonean Kingdom (37 BCE) and the Jewish–Roman wars (66–135 CE), the figure of the Jewish Messiah was one who would deliver the Jews from oppression and usher in an Olam HaBa ("world to come"), the Messianic Age.
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Jewish priests that served as high priests can be put in Category:High priests of Israel. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 ...
In Judaism, the instructions of the priests (Hebrew: תורת כהנים torat kohanim) are the rulings and teachings of the priests that are addressed to the Jewish people. [1] [2] Numerous Biblical passages attest to the role of the priests in teaching Torah to the people and in issuing judgment. Later rabbinic statements elaborate on these ...