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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Asmoneus

Britannica 11th

ASMONEUS, or ASAMONAEUS (so Josephus), great-grandfather of Mattathias, the father of Judas Maccabaeus. Nothing more is known of him, and the name is only given by Josephus (not in .1 Mace. ii. i). But the dynasty was known to Josephus and the Mishna (once) as ...

Vol. 2, pp. 764-764 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Ashodeus

Britannica 11th

ASHODEUS, or ASHMF.DAI. an evil demon who appears in later Jewish tradition as " king of demons." He is sometimes identified with Beelzebub or Apollyon (Rev. ix. n). In the Talmud he plays a great part in the legends concerning Solomon. In the apocryphal book

Vol. 2, pp. 763-763 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75
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