The demise of Joshua according to Josephus
| dc.contributor.author | Begg, Christopher T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-07-10T08:03:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-07-10T08:03:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-03 | |
| dc.description.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. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | 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] | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0259-9422 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/2968 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria | en |
| dc.rights | Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria | en |
| dc.subject | Samaritan Chronicle | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Pseudo-Philo -- Liber antiquitatum biblicarum | lat |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Joshua (Biblical figure) | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Josephus, Flavius | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Bible -- O.T. -- Joshua XXIII, XXIV -- Historiography | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Philo, of Alexandria | en |
| dc.title | The demise of Joshua according to Josephus | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |