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| Title: Flavius Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews. An Anti-Christian Manifesto Pages: 473-480 Type: Generic Year: 1985 Abstract: "Bases the thesis expressed in the title on an analysis of AJ 1, §§ 1-108, and illustrate it with some examples. // The anti-Christianity of Josephus in his Antiquities is revealed by his treatment of several OT incidents (e.g. the flood, the covenant between God and Abraham) and of other themes dear to Christians (e.g. biblos geneseos, dikaiosyne, koinonia. // At the end of the 80's A.D. Josephus went through a phase of new acceptance of his being a Jew, and the Antiquities can be seen as a work of repentance. After the ruin of their temple by the Romans in 70 A.D. the written word was the only means by which the Jews could readjust the equilibrium between themselves and the growing Christian population. // Josephus' treatment of several OT incidents (the flood, the covenant between God and Abraham, the conclusion of the Sinai covenant) in Antiquities reveals his intention to transpose or even evacuate the biblical doctrine of the covenant, which the early Christians overdeveloped along the lines of the Septuagint. His handling of other themes dear to Christians (e.g. biblos geneseos, dikaiosyne, koinonia) further illustrates his anti-Christian tendency. - D.J.H." Keywords: Josephus as Apologist, Ancient anti-Judaism |