Talk:Onias III

Dates Anyone?
Is there any possibility of adding dates to this person's life? Stevenmitchell (talk) 23:52, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Old-fashioned language
The language in this article, being copied verbatim from the Jewish Encyclopedia published over 110 years ago, is archaic and hard to follow. For example, this passage is very convoluted:

"Onias was obliged to yield to his own brother, Jason, a Hellenizer. According to Josephus, Jason became high priest after the death of Onias, the latter's son, who bore the same name, being then a minor. It is strange that both father and son should have been named Onias, and still more strange is the statement of Josephus that the high priest who succeeded Jason and was the brother of Onias and Jason, likewise was called Onias, and did not assume the name of Menelaus until later; for according to this statement there must have been two brothers of the same name."

I'm not familiar enough with the topic to update it, but if anyone is up to the task, a rewrite would be ideal. Sadiemonster (talk) 13:22, 27 October 2016 (UTC)