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-*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see [[:Category:Alcimus (subject)]]
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-*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Alcimus (sources)]]
-'''Alcimus''' was a Jewish High Priest, 162-159 BCE.
-==Overview==
-Alcimus was appointed High Priest by [[Antiochus V Eupator]] and [[Lysias]] to succeed [[Menelaus]], who was blamed by the [[Seleucids]] for all trouble in Jerusalem and executed as a traitor. Alcimus somehow managed to be reconfirmed under [[Demetrius I Soter]].
-Both [[1 Maccabees]] and [[2 Maccabees]] are hostile toward Alcimus, but he does not seem to have been a leader of the Hellenistic party. He was an Aaronite (not a member of the House of Zadok]]), was pro-Seleucid and anti-Hasmonean. During his tenure, [[Judas Maccabeus]] after his victory over [[Nicanor]], was defeated and killed by [[Bacchides]]. Alcimus himself however suddenly died shortly afterward. After his sudden death, the high priesthood remained apparently vacant for some years.
-The possibility that the writing of [[1 Baruch]] be connected to Alcimus' appointment, would shed more light on an otherwise obscure figure.
-==References==
-*'''Alcimus''' / [[Uriel Rappaport]] / In: [[The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary]], 1:145
-==External links==
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcimus Wikipedia]
-*[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1095&letter=A Jewish Encyclopedia]
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