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| Title: Saul's War with Amalek according to Josephus Secondary Title: Laur. Volume: 37 Pages: 387-415 Type: Journal Article Year: 1996 Abstract: Begg, Christopher T. in: OTA 20.2 (1997), 300: "B. studies Josephus' retelling of the biblical story of Saul's war against Amalek, 1 Samuel 15 (as represented by MT, LXX, and Targum Jonathan) in Ant. 6.131-156. The study addresses such questions as the text-form(s) of 1 Samuel 15 available to Josephus, the rewriting techniques employed by him, and his reason for including the problematic episode (i.e., its capacity to convey lessons he wished to offer both his Gentile and Jewish audiences)".
Matthews, Christopher R.: "This detailed comparison of the biblical and Josephan versions of the Amalekite war story in I Samuel 15 (Ant. 6:131-156) seeks to determine (1) which text-form(s) of 1 Samuel 15 Josephus utilized in composing his version ( a LXX-like-text), (2) what rewriting techniques were applied by Josephus in generating his account (rearrangement, abridgement/omission, additions/expansions), and (3) why Josephus included this problematic story at all within his history (to inculate the moral, equally applicable to Gentiles and Jews, of his entire work [see Ant. 1:14]". Keywords: Antiquities |