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| Title: "Tyrants, Bandits and Kings: Personal Power in Josephus" Pages: 176-204 Type: Generic Year: 1993 Abstract: "The purpose of this paper is to describe personal power as a social and historical phenomenon in the first centuries B.C.E./C.E. in Syria-Palestine as documented by Josephus. S. finally gives a survey of the vocabulary of personal power used by Josephus and concludes: ""Because Josephus casts his description of his power in the technical Greek vocabulary of his Hellenistic historigraphical koinê, it has been our consistent propensity to collapse his description into known models of power for the Greek city-state and the Roman world, and to see it as a variant of patron-client relationships. It is not"" (201). - This study investigates the nature of power in social systems that were characteristically found in the eastern Mediterranean in the broad period spanning the first centuries B.C./A.D. With reference to the works of Josephus, it concentrates on three interrelated linkages in the power networks found in Palestine in the period: (1) the way in which kings negotiated power with respect to other powerful men around them; (2) the way in which local ""men of power"" (dunatoi/, tu/rannoi) manipulated their power and maintained it; and (3) the way in which persons labelled as bandits (lvstai/) reveal something about the nature of the linkages (personel connections) mediated institutional arrangements in the west, they were at the very eart of a system of power found in the east. - C.R.M." Keywords: Specific Examinations of Josephus, collections of Josephus |