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| Title: Josephus and the Afterlife Secondary Title: JSPE.S 32 Pages: 20-34 Type: Generic Year: 1998 Abstract: "Paget, James Carleton in: BJGS 25 (1999/00) 20: In the first essay Joseph Sievers examines Josephus' attitude to the afterlife, noting the diversity of his presentations and suggesting the outline of a method which would help to distinguish his won opinions from those of the opinions of his sources. // Feldman Louis Harry in: OTA 22,1 (1999) 138: S.'s working hypothesis is that Josephus selected and adapted his biblical text, as well as his other written and oral sources, according to his own criteria. S. contends that in his account of the disappearances of Enoch, Elijah, and Moses Josephus is aware of extrabiblical traditions and that in all three cases his changes emphasize a belief in an afterlife. In the account of the binding of Isaac, Josephus seems to reinterpret resurrection language in terms of the soul's immortality. Such a belief probably circulated in Josephus' time. The belief that death involves the liberation of the soul from the body may underlie the deathbed speech of Aristobulus I (War 1.84, Ant. 13.317). S. suggests that when Josephus uses a term or tradition in different parts of his work that cannot be derived from the same source it probably reflects his own view." Keywords: Josephus as Theologian |