Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque. Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae
A Judith Göppinger
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Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque. Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae

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Josephus' Antiquities retell the entire Jewish history from the creation of the world to the outbreak of the Jewish War. But who makes this history? This study examines the literary construction of Moses, David, Judas Maccabee, and Agrippa I. through the lens of Roman exempla, showing that Josephus created these four Jewish protagonists in shape and form compatible with them, without turning the Jewish heroes into Romans. In this way Josephus proves not only the similarity of Jewish and Roman exemplary men, but he outdoes the Romans in their own categories of superiority, old age, and flawless...