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Moses among the Greek Lawgivers
Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives
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Ursula Westwood
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Ursula Westwood, DPhil (Oxford, 2020), is a lecturer in Greek at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
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eBook published on:
September 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004681934
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Main content:
264
eBook ISBN:
9789004681934
Audience(s) for this book
The primary readership will be academics and postgraduate students working on Jewish literature in Greek under the Roman empire, including those in departments of Jewish studies, and Classics/ Ancient History, and libraries affiliated with such departments. Subject areas: Hellenistic Judaism, reception of the Pentateuch, Greek imperial literature.
