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| Title: Israel's Demand for a King According to Josephus Secondary Title: Le Muséon Volume: 110 Pages: 329-348 Type: Journal Article Year: 1997 Abstract: in: AnPh 68 (1997), 231: "Étude d'Ant. 6,32-44. Essai de reconstitution de la "Vorlage" de la version que donne ce texte de 1 Sam 8. Comparaison avec le traitement de cette dernière par la tradition rabbinique d'une part et le judaïsme hellénistique de l'autre. L'apport de Josèphe à la narration biblique".
Matthews, Christopher R. in: NTAb 42.3 (1998), 536: "This essay examines Josephus' version in Antiquities 6:32-44, of the story of Israel's demand for a king in 1 Samuel 8, with attention to the major textual witnesses for the biblical material and developments in the postbiblical period. It treats the material in five parallel units: Samuel's son (1 Sam 8:1-3/Ant 6:32-34), the people's demand and Samuel's reaction (1 Sam 8:4-6/Ant. 6:35-37), etc. It concludes that Josephus drew on a B/L-like form (Vaticanus/Lucianic) of the text as opposed to the MT. The most prominent rewriting techniques utilized by Josephus in this passage are his numerous additions to and amplifications of source items".
Hilhorst, A. in: JSJ 30.4 (1999), 477: "A comparison of 1 Sam 8 with Josephus' version of it in Ant. 6.32-44 reveals the following. Josephus used the LXX text of 1 Sam. His rewriting techniques include many additions and amplifications [and few omissions and abridgments]; rearrangements; terminological and stylistic modifications and some modifications of content. General features include the increasedly negative characterization of Samuel's son and the crowd and the exaltation of Samuel. 'As for the role of Good... Josephus' rewriting... Does not display a consistent tendency to "de-theologize" the story such as one finds in man other passages in the "biblical portion" of ant.'. Finally, 'Josephus' version is one that has been composed with the interests and sensitivities of cultivated Gentiles, his primary audience in mind'". Keywords: Antiquities |