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| Title: Josephus and Hippolytus on the Pharisees Secondary Title: Hebrew Union College Annual Volume: 55 Pages: 1-25 Type: Journal Article Year: 1984 Abstract: "Hippolytus used an even more pro-Pharisaic revision of Bell. Iud. 2:119-166".
"Hippolytus used a more pro-Pharisee reworked version of Josephus' account of the Jewish facts. The work of this reviser may give us important evidence on how the facts were understood between the end of the first and the beginning of the third centuries".
"A comparison of Josephus' account of the Jewish sects and parties in Bell. Iud. 2:119-166 and Hippolytus, Refut. 9.18,26-29,4. Rather than suppose a common source, or Hippolytus as reviser of what he read in Josephus, it seems clear that Hippolytus used a revision of Josephus which was more pro-Pharisaic than Josephus himself".
"There is a definite literary dependence between the descriptions of Jewish sects and parties in Josephus' War 2:119-166 and Hippolytus' Refutation 9.19.2b-29.4. Rather than supposing common source or arguing that Hippolytus revised what he read in Josephus' account, it is preferable to conclude that Hippolytus used a pro-Pharisaic revision of Josephus' account".
"Josephus' account to the Jewish sects and parties in BJ 2.119-166 is one of the best known sources concerning these groups. A parallel description exists in the writings of Hippolytus, Ref. 9,18,2b-29,4. There has been relatively little done in comparing the versions of Josephus and Hippolytus, and what has been done has focused on their accounts of the Essenes. This paper concentrates on a comparison of the descriptions of the Pharisees, and places Hippolytus's comments on that group in the context of New Testament and Patristic accounts of the Pharisees. In the process, it will become clear that we must reconsider the status of the material preserved by Hippolytus; our conception of the literary relationship between Josephus and Hippolytus must also be rethought. - Rather than supposing a common source (M. Smith, HUCA 29/1958/273-313;IZBG 7:1195) or Hippolytus as reviser of what he read in Josephus (C. Burchard, JSJ 8/1977/1-41; IZBG 25:1699), I believe it clear that Hippolytus used a revision of Josephus, one markedly more pro-Pharisaic than Josephus." Keywords: Groups and Religious Movements in Palestinian Judaism |