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| Title: Apologetic Literature and Ambassadorial Acitivities Pages: 55-78 Type: Generic Year: 1989 Abstract: "The Apologist's Athenagoras apology ""Legatio"" compared with Apology and Petition in Philo and Josephus shows the rhetorical pattern of presbeutikos logos (as described Ps-Menander 423,6-424,2) in which Jewish as well as Christian ambassadors presented appeals and requests of their community to the emperor by calling on familiar epideictic strategies. The literary character of the early Christian apologies (Justin included) can at best be described as: apologetically grounded petition." Keywords: Josephus as Apologist, Ancient anti-Judaism |