El templo de Leontópolis: Semilla santa. El sacerdocio judío de Onías en Egipto

This paper, based on available data, studies the founding of the sanctuary of Onias at Leontopolis as a response to the crisis of the high priesthood and the temple of Jerusalem caused by the deposition of Onias III around 175 BC. The investigation of the circumstances and motives for the erection of the afore mentioned sanctuary, its claim to legitimacy, and the analysis of the profile of the Oniad community occupy a large part of the exposition. Likewise, the thesis of a corpus of literature linked to this temple is also put forward, but focusing only on the four works whose Oniad attribution enjoys the greatest consensus among specialists: the third book of the Sibylline Oracles, Third Maccabees, the quotations from Pseudo-Hecataeus, and the novel Joseph and Asenet.