Page:Jewish Encyclopedia Volume 1.pdf/667

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.
611
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
611

of the siiiKiilar in the passaire in Luke, in fact, is inliTpreted by Dr. Plunimer as signitieant of this eir(iiriistance: i-l (ippf/i/u<: 'Arra Kai Ka/acfpii "under llie hiirh priest Annas-C'aiaphas." whieli would mean "tliat Ijetween them thi-y discharged the duties, or that eaeli of them in dilTerent senses was rej^arded hitrh priest, Aiuias tie jure (Aets, iv. ()| and Caiaplias il, fiirtii" {John, xi. 49). Phimmer's further sugges-

tion that

Annas may

liave been eneourag<'(l.

"so far

as it was safe to clo so. to ignore the lionian apliointmenis and to eontiinie in ollicc iluring the higl] priestlioods of his siieeessors. " must l)e noted, particularly in view of the fact that govennncnt

.^i..

si,-

Mkssi

vh.

ANOINTING.— Biblical

Data: Two words employed in the Old Testament for Anointing, "|1D and nCtS- The former designates the )u-ivate use of unguents in making one's toilet, the latter their are

as a religious rite. of soothing the skin in the fierce lieat of the Palestinian climate, oil seems to liave been ai>plied to the cxjioscd ]iarts of the body, especially

u.se

As a means

N ]a. IM IAS itrom Wllktuon.)

appnintmenls to religious offlres were always disrounlcimnced by the Jews. After the removal of Caiaplias four

more sons of .Vnnas held the high-

pri( slhooil, iind

the last of IIk in. another . nas. is to death James, known as •the brother of .lesus," and the lirst bishop of .bTUsalem. The . an family (J'jn D'a* is rcferreil to in the Tal mud (Pes. r>1ii) as having inlluenee, but using it against the interests of the people. to

have

|iut

M

Iluii.KMiRAPiiv: SrliftriT, (Irwh. il.Jllil Vnlkfn, «!., 11.217: I'Uiniiiier, .Sf. LukfAn IntfriutlOnutl CriltcaWninnuiiliiry^ pp. St.

<i:>.

A. ni

Anointing

ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH, Jaiiuzf.it. ANNUAX HEBREW MAGAZINE, THE. See ri;i;ioiiii ANOINTED OF THE LORD, THE. See

flips

said

Annas

THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

611

KlSi..

was n part of the be inferred from Malt. vi. IT. The )>ractise isoliler than Daviil. and runs throughout the Old Testament (see Dcul. xxviii. 40; Puth. iii. 'J; II ."^am. xii. 2ll. xiv. 2; llCliron. xxviii. 1,1; K/.ek. xvi. !l; Micali. vi. l."i: Dan. x. If), . oiiiting accompanied a bath (Pulh, iii. :t; H Sam. xii. 2lt; P>.ek. xvi. 9; Susanna, 17>; it was a part of the toilet for a feast (Kcil. ix. H, Ps. xxiii. .">) |in which a dilTerent term Ili'nce. it was omitis poetically uscil] Amos, vi. (i). ted in mourning as a sign of griif (11 Sam. xiv. 2, Dan. III, anil rcsume<j to imliiale that motirniug to the face (Ps. civ. LI): that this

daily toilet

may

(

was over (II Sam xii 2U; .luililh. x. The primary imaningof »<.i«/eiA. which i«-curs al.so It in .Vrabio. seems to have bi>en to daub or smear. '.i).

ANNIXrS KUFUS

the year li-irt (Jose|)lius,

Procurator of Jiiden from

"Am."

xviii. 2.

Si

2).

A.

W.

is

used

(Jer. xii. 14) of

painting a ceiling iiud (Isa.