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| Title: Baptême et résurrection. Le témoignage de Josèphe Secondary Title: Josèphe et son Temps 2 Pages: XIV, 255 Type: Book Year: 1999 Abstract: in: NTAb 43.3 (1999), 628: "After introductory comments on Josephus the historian and the Nt. Nodet, professor of intertestamental literature at the Ècole Biblique de Jérusalem and author of La Bible de Josèphe. Tome 1, Le Pentateuque (1996), deals with Josephus' reports about James (Ant. 20:197-203) and Jesus (Ant. 18:63-64), his report about John the Baptist (Ant. 18:116-119), Josephus and baptism, his treatment of the period from Herod to Caligula, Pharisees and Sadducees according to Josephus (with particular attention to the question of resurrection) and other sources about the Sadducees and the sons of Zadok. Nodet concludes that the reports about Jesus, John, and James have different origins but nevertheless stem from Josephus' hand".
Feldman, Louis Harry in: OTA 22.3 (1999), 343-544: "N. attempts to answer the question as to how Josephus can be of help in comprehending baptism, so characteristic of Pauline Christianity. After an introduction briefly surveying Josephus' works and some remarks on the beginnings of Christianity, N. deals with the passages in Josephus about James, Jesus, and John the Baptist, the authenticity of all of which he accepts, his focus being on why Josephus introduced these into his Antiquities. He concludes that Josephus was dependent upon Christian sources for his accounts of Jesus and John, that he was remarkably precise in describing John's view of baptism, that his source was the ancestor of the Trinitarian Credo, that this source was a confession of formal faith, a sort of baptismal formulary pronounced by a neophyte, who thereby schematically expressed the sense of Christian baptism that he was accepting. N. further holds that the exact baptismal text known to Josephus is lost but that it must have contained an indication concerning the novelty of baptism in the name of Jesus, along with brief reference to the contrast between Jesus' death at the hands of Pilate and John's at the hands of Herod Antipas. N. asserts as well that if one bears in mind that the account of baptism and of the spirit is specifically Pauline, one must suppose that the Roman Christians with whom Josephus came in contact were Pauline and very far removed from the Judeo-Christianity represented by James". Keywords: Specific Examinations of Josephus, collections of Josephus |