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| Title: Moses' Ethiopian Campaign Pages: 135-156 Type: Generic Year: 1983 Abstract: "Vergleicht die Erzählungen bei Artapanus (Euseb, Praep. ev. IX 27) und Josephus (AJ II,238-257). Der ursprüngliche Kern der Überlieferung über den Kampf Moses gegen die Äthiopier entstand unter den ägyptischen Juden in der persischen Zeit. // Josephus' account of Moses' Ethiopian campaign (Ant. 2:238-257) recast the biblical Moses in the following ways: (1) Moses fled from Egypt because he was an unjustly treated righteous man, not because he was a murderer. (2) Moses was a brilliant military leader - the kind of Jewish hero needed to convince Greek readers of his legitimate roles as leader and lawgiver for the Jewish nation. (§) The ibis was useful but not the divine animal that the Egyptians considered it to be. Josephus' version was a polemic written against Artapanus' Hellenistic version, but achieved by a subtle literary shift so as not to attack directly and accepted Alexandrian-Jewish tradition. - D.J.H." Keywords: Antiquities |