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| 0690-4941-01 | Flavius Josephus as Interpreter of the Bible | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Flavius Josephus as Interpreter of the Bible
The famous Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote towards the end of the 1. century C.E. his “Jewish Antiquities”. For the time before the Persian and Hellenistic period he was depending upon the Hebrew Bible and, therefore, interprets it his way. Scholars are divided as to the question how much Josephus tried to meet the expectations of a Greco-Roman audience. We will investigate some of his interpretations in light of Greco-Roman mythology, comedy and tragedy as compared with the biblical foundations.
The famous Jewish historian Flavius Josephus wrote towards the end of the 1. century C.E. his “Jewish Antiquities”. For the time before the Persian and Hellenistic period he was depending upon the Hebrew Bible and, therefore, interprets it his way. Scholars are divided as to the question how much Josephus tried to meet the expectations of a Greco-Roman audience. We will investigate some of his interpretations in light of Greco-Roman mythology, comedy and tragedy as compared with the biblical foundations.