Abstract
Maccabees recounts a vision in which Onias the Just commissions Judas Maccabeus as protector of Jerusalem and its Temple. This account belongs to a specific genre. Onias was a martyred zaddik or “righteous one” who, by means of the vision, nominated his successor. This genre is applied to the post-resurrection visions of Jesus to his disciples in an attempt to clarify their meaning. These stories can be understood as zaddik vision traditions which have been overlaid with apocalyptic imagery.
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