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    Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite...
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    gives a list of the High Priests (Kohen Gadol) of Ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. Because of a lack of historical data...
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  • Heliopolis. God's Wife of Amun – the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult The High Priest of Israel served in the Tabernacle, then in the Solomon's Temple...
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  • chief priest, spoken of in 2 Kings 25:18–21 (at the time of the fall of Judah and the deportation to Babylon), was one of Ezra's ancestors. The son of Azariah...
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    Joshua son of Jozadak served as High Priest ca. 515–490 BCE in the common List of High Priests of Israel. This dating is based on the period of service at...
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    Zadok (redirect from Zadok (High Priest))
    a Kohen (priest), biblically recorded to be a descendant from Eleazar the son of Aaron. He was the High Priest of Israel during the reigns of David and...
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    /ˈɛfɒd/ or /ˈiːfɒd/) was a type of apron that, according to the Hebrew Bible, was worn by the High Priest of Israel, an artifact and an object to be...
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    BC) was, according to the Book of Samuel, a priest and a judge of the Israelites in the city of Shiloh, ancient Israel. When Hannah came to Shiloh to...
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    romanized: Iōánnēs Hurkanós) was a Hasmonean (Maccabean) leader and Jewish High Priest of Israel of the 2nd century BCE (born 164 BCE, reigned from 134 BCE until he...
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  • Jonathan the High Priest, was a first-century Jewish high priest and religious leader. Shortly after he was announced High Priest of Israel, he was killed...
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  • romanized: Yoḥānān), son of Joiada, was the fifth High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem after it was rebuilt after the end of the Babylonian captivity...
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  • Yason, יאסון) was the High Priest of Israel from around 175 BCE to 171 BCE during the Second Temple period of Judaism. He was of the Oniad family and was...
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  • "brother of goodness") was a High Priest of Israel cited in the Bible. He was the son of Phinehas, grandson of Eli, and brother of Ichabod. On the death of his...
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  • list of High Priests by Josephus. High Priest of Israel List of High Priests of Israel 1 Chronicles 5:35 1 Chronicles 6:10 Antiquities of the Jews 10:151-153...
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  • Menelaus (Hebrew: מנלאוס) was High Priest in Jerusalem from about 172 BC to about 161 BC. He was high priest at the beginning of the Maccabean revolt (167-160)...
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    מִצְנֶפֶת, romanized: miṣnep̄eṯ) was the head covering worn by the High Priest of Israel when he served in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem. The...
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    Aaron (redirect from Aaron the priest)
    (/ˈɛərən/ AIR-ən or /ˈærən/ ARR-ən) was a Jewish prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious...
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  • service was a special sacrificial service performed by the High Priest of Israel on the holiday of Yom Kippur, in the Temple in Jerusalem (and previously...
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    same name as the priestly turban, which was worn by the High Priest of Israel in the Temple of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. The name originates...
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    Elisheba (category Family of Aaron and Moses)
    romanized: ’Ělīšeḇa‘) was the wife of the Israelite prophet Aaron, who was the elder brother of Moses and the first High Priest of Israel, according to the Hebrew...
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  • Jewish High Priest (c. 260–245 BC) during the Second Temple period. He was the son of Onias I and brother of Simon I. Eleazar was the high priest involved...
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  • whom one of her handwritten books is dedicated Azariah (prophet), a prophet (2 Chronicles 15:1–8) Azariah (high priest) high priest of Israel (1 Kings...
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    entry to the land of Israel and the death of his father, he was appointed the third High Priest of Israel, and served at the sanctuary of Bethel (Judges...
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    Simon II was a High Priest of Israel during the Second Temple period. He was the son of Onias II, and probably was succeeded by Onias III. There are two...
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  • Ἄνανος "Ananos son of Ananos" var: Ananias, Latin: Anani Ananus or Ananus filius Anani) (d. 68 CE) was a Herodian-era High Priest of Israel in Jerusalem, Judea...
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    engrave the stones of the priestly breastplate of the High Priest of Israel. King Solomon, aware of the existence of the Shamir but unaware of its location...
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    Ahimelech (category 11th-century BCE High Priests of Israel)
    in 1 Chronicles. He descended from Aaron's son Ithamar and the High Priest of Israel Eli. In 1 Chronicles 18:16 his name is Abimelech according to the...
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    Book of Joshua Phinehas – Biblical priest and prophet who opposed the heresy of Peor Eli – High priest of Shiloh in ancient Israel Elkanah – Husband of Hannah...
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    Ezra (redirect from Ezra the Priest)
    Joshua ben Jozadak for the office of High Priest of Israel. According to Jewish tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles, and is the same prophet...
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  • The family of Boethos (or Boethus) produced many High Priests of Israel. They may have been related to the Boethusians. Simon, son of Boethus from Alexandria...
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