Tobiads
Sign in to savethumb|right|View of Qasr al-Abd ("Castle of the Servant"), an important structure of the Tobiad estate in today's Iraq al-Amir ("Caverns of the Prince").
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- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- First Temple Period
- Second Temple Period
- Achaemenid Empire
- Hellenistic Period
- The Tobiad Estate
- Site Description
- Site design and ornamentation
- Narrative in Josephus
- Comparison of accounts
- Critical views
- References
- Notes
- External links
thumb|right|View of Qasr al-Abd ("Castle of the Servant"), an important structure of the Tobiad estate in today's Iraq al-Amir ("Caverns of the Prince").
The Tobiads were a Jewish dynasty in Ammon with origins possibly rooted in the First Temple Period, both literary and archaeological evidence point to their prominence during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty and at the beginning of the Hasmonean period. They were philhellene, supporters of Hellenistic Judaism, in the early years of the 2nd century BCE.
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