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Ananias (Persian)
Ananias may refer to: People Mononyms * Ananias ben Onias, general of Cleopatra III * Ananias of Adiabene ( 15 BCE– 30 CE), Jewish merchant and mendicant proselytizer prominent at the court of Abinergaos I * Ananias son of Nedebeus, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea * Ananias and Sapphira, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God * Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul * Ananias III, a Chronological list of saints in the 3rd century, saint in the 3rd century * Ananias (Persian) (died 345), priest and fellow martyr of Shemon Bar Sabbae * Ananias of Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century * Ananias I of Armenia (died 968) * Ananias of Lakedaemonia (died 1764) * Ananias (Jafaridze) (born 1949), Metropolitan of Manglisi and the Tetri-Tskaro of the Georgian Orthodox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ananias Ben Onias
Ananias the son of Onias (in Hebrew, ''Hananiya ben Honiyyahu'') was the son of the Jewish high priest, Onias IV, who founded a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis in Egypt during the persecutions of Antiochus IV. Onias won the favor of Ptolemy VI, who gave permission for the building of this temple. Ananias and his brother Helkias were held in high esteem by Cleopatra III. Owing to her regard for them, the Judeans of the province Oneion, between Pelusium and Memphis, remained true to her when she was abandoned on the island of Cyprus by all her soldiers. When she went to Judea to help the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus against her son, Ptolemy Lathyrus Ptolemy IX Soter II Ptolemy IX also took the same title 'Soter' as Ptolemy I. In older references and in more recent references by the German historian Huss, Ptolemy IX may be numbered VIII. (, ''Ptolemaĩos Sōtḗr'' 'Ptolemy ..., and succeeded in dislodging him (about 100 BCE), Ananias and Helkias were her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |