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Moses among the Greek Lawgivers

Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives

Ursula Westwood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68134-7 (ISBN)

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Josephus’ Antiquities invites his audience to compare the Jewish lawgiver, Moses, with the famous legislators of Greece and Rome. This book responds to the invitation, using Plutarch’s Lives to uncover a series of appeals and challenges embedded in Josephus’ narrative.

Josephus’ Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver (νομοθέτης)? This book uses Plutarch’s Lives as a proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus’ choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus’ intriguing and lively account of Moses’ legislative activities.

Ursula Westwood, DPhil (Oxford, 2020), is a lecturer in Greek at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 Studies of Josephus’ Moses

2 Josephus’ Audience for the Antiquities

3 Josephus’ Purposes in the Antiquities

4 Josephus and the Greeks

5 Greek Literature in the Flavian Period

6 Plutarch

7 Methodology and Outline

2 Legends of Lawgivers

1 Lawgivers and Laws

2 Divine Law through Human Dialogue: Plato’s Laws

3 Degeneration and Exemplarity

4 Roman Legislators: Cicero’s Theories

5 Dionysius on the Roman νομοθέται

6 Conclusions

3 Introducing Moses the Lawgiver

1 The Jewish Lawgiver in the Prologue to the Antiquities

2 Preparing the Lawgiver in Antiquities II

4 Giving the Law

1 Divine Law

2 Temple and Priest

3 Written Law

5 Leaving the Law

1 Resistance and Conflict

2 The Constitution

3 Death and Departure

6 Conclusion

1 Appealing to His Audience

2 Challenging His Audience

3 Implications of This Study

Bibliography

Primary Texts and Translations

Secondary Literature

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Names and Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 210
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	278 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	90-04-68134-5 / 9004681345
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68134-7 / 9789004681347
Zustand	Neuware