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| Title: Ladies' Aid: Gentile Noblewoman as Saviours and Benefactors in the Antiquities Secondary Title: HThR Volume: 92 Pages: 199-219 Type: Journal Article Year: 1999 Abstract: García Martínez, Florentino in: JSJ 30.4 (1999), 469-470: "M. étudie la présentation que Josèphe fait dans les Antiquités d'un bon nombre de femmes de la maison impériale [Livia, Antonia, Agrippina, Poppea Sabina] ainsi que d'autres femmes nobles [Helena, Fulvia, Thermutis, Tharbis et les filles de Reuel]. "In this article, I show that the stories of these Gentile noble women, who share an interest in Jewish religious practices, are part of a larger narrative pattern in the Antiquities that repeatedly characterizes Gentile women of high standing as saviors and benefactors on behalf of the Jewish people".
Harrington, Daniel J. in: NTAb 43.3 (1999), 547: "Three women in Josephus' Antiquities are well known for their purported devotion to Jewish religious practices: Poppaea Sabina, the consort/wife of Nero, whom Josephus describes as "God-fearing", Fuliva, a Roman convert of consular rank whom he pegs as the source of the expulsion of Jews from Rome under Tiberius; and Helena, Queen of Adiabene, also a convert do Judaism. The article shows that the stories of these three Gentile noblewomen who shared an interest in Jewish religious practices were part of a lager narrative pattern in Antiquities that repeatedly characterized Gentile women of high standing as saviors and benefactors of the Jewish people. The salvific acts of foreign noblewomen also feature prominently in Josephus' retelling of the story of Moses early in his Antiquities". Keywords: Antiquities |