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| Title: Flavius Josephus as Interpreter of Biblical Law. The Council of seven and the Levitical Servants in Jewish Antiquitiees 4.214 Pages: 477-492 Type: Generic Year: 1995 Abstract: "JSJ 27 (1996), 203: Pearce argues that apparent deviations from biblical law in Josephus's representation of the law in Antiquities are to be explained as being derived explicitly or implicitly from other parts of scripture. This thesis is illustrated by reference to A 4:214 in relation to Dtn 16,18. The seven rulers in A 4:214 are not a reflection of a historical institution a supposed seven-man local council in the Second Temple period, but rather an idealized development based on the tradition of the appointment of the Seventy Elders, in which the seven is to be understood as a fraction of the seventy. The two levitical servants assigned to each ruler represents a harmonization of Dtn 16,18 with II Chr 19,11 and LXX Dtn 1,15. At the same time the seven may be indended to evoke the Graeco-Roman tradition of the Seven Sages, and the description of the two Levites as ""servants"" to reflect the language of Greek judicial administration." Keywords: Josephus as Theologian |