The demise of Joshua according to Josephus
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Begg, Christopher T.
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Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Abstract
This article focuses on Josephus' account of the end of Joshua in his Ant.
5.115-119. It offers a detailed comparison between that account and its biblical source (Jos 23-24)
on the one hand, and two other postbiblical narrations of Joshua's demise, that is those of
Pseudo-Philo in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 23-24 and the "Samaritan Chronicle No. II," on
the other. As compared with Joshua 23-24, Josephus' version appears highly abbreviated, leaving
aside, for example, the whole of Joshua 23 as well as 24:16- 28, 31-32, even while also introducing
various new elements. Josephus shares his non-reproduction of Joshua 23 and 24:31-32 with
Pseudo-Philo and the Chronicle, for example, but deviates from these other witnesses in his
downplaying of the role / activities of the dying Joshua.
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Samaritan Chronicle
Sustainable Development Goals
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Begg, CT 2007, 'The demise of Joshua according to Josephus', HTS Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 129-145. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_hervorm.html]