Assideans

Assideans
Assideans
• The maintainers of the Mosaic Law against the invasion of Greek customs

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Assideans
    Assideans
    † Catholic_Encyclopedia ► Assideans
    Assideans (Hebr., chasidim, saints; Gr., Asidaioi), men endowed with grace ( -note doesnt seem right-) Ps., xxxix, 5; cxlviii, 14).
    They were the maintainers of the Mosaic Law against the invasion of Greek customs. When the Machabees struggled against Antiochus IV (Epiphanes), the Assideans naturally joined their cause (I Mach., ii, 42, 43). However, not all the adherents of the Machabees were Assideans; according to I Mach., vii, 13, the Scribes and the Assideans sought to make peace with the Syrians, while the other followers of the Machabees suspected deceit. That this suspicion was well founded may he inferred from the fact that Alcimus, who had been made High Priest by Demetrius I (I Mach., vii, 9), slew sixty Assideans in one day (I Mach., vii, 16). According to II Mach., xiv, 3, the same Alcimus "wilfully defiled himself", and later on he testified before Demetrius: "They among the Jews that are called Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace" (II Mach., xiv, 6). There is an opinion which maintains that the Assideans were identical with the later Pharisees.
    A.J. MAAS
    Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


Catholic encyclopedia.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Assidean — The Assideans (the Anglicized form, derived through the Greek, of the Hebrew Hasidim , the pious ), were a party or sect which stood out against the Hellenization of the Jews in the 2nd century B.C. After the massacre of those who fled from the… …   Wikipedia

  • Hasideans — The Hasideans (Hasidæans or Assideans) were a Jewish religious party which commenced to play an important role in political life only during the time of the Maccabean wars, although it had existed for quite some time previous. They are mentioned… …   Wikipedia

  • The Machabees —     The Machabees     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Machabees     (Gr. Hoi Makkabaioi; Lat. Machabei; most probably from Aramaic maqqaba= hammer ).     A priestly family which under the leadership of Mathathias initiated the revolt against the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • 160 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeeleucid Empire* The Seleucid king, Demetrius I, on campaign in the east of his empire, leaves his general Bacchides to govern the western portion of it. * In response to the Jewish high priest, Alcimus , request for assistance …   Wikipedia

  • Bacchides (general) — Bacchides (Greek: Βακχίδης ) was a Hellenistic Greek general; friend of the Syrian Greek king Demetrius; and ruler in the country beyond the river Euphrates. Demetrius sent him in 161 BCE to Judea with a large army, in order to invest the… …   Wikipedia

  • Кхасиды —     КХАСИДЫ или Хасдим. В Семикнижии Assidai, а по английски Assideans. Они упомянуты также в Книге Маккавея , I, VII, 13, как умертвленные вместе со многими другими. Они были последователями Маттатии, отца маккавеян, и все были посвященными… …   Религиозные термины

  • Хасдим —     КХАСИДЫ или Хасдим. В Семикнижии Assidai, а по английски Assideans. Они упомянуты также в Книге Маккавея , I, VII, 13, как умертвленные вместе со многими другими. Они были последователями Маттатии, отца маккавеян, и все были посвященными… …   Религиозные термины

  • Alcimus — • High priest, the leader of the hellenizing party in the time of Judas Machabeus Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Alcimus     Alcimus      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Sadducees — • A politico religious sect of the Jews during the late post Exile and New Testament period. The old derivation of the name from tsaddiqim, i.e. the righteous; with assumed reference to the adherence of the Sadducees to the letter of the Law as… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Scribes — • In the New Testament period the scribes were the professional interpreters of the Law in the Jewish synagogues Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Scribes     Scribes      …   Catholic encyclopedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”