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| Title: David's Conquest and Officials according to Josephus Secondary Title: Ath. Volume: 87 Pages: 169-190 Type: Journal Article Year: 1999 Abstract: Hilhorst, A. in: JSJ 30.4 (1999), 465: "A comparison of the account of David's conquests and his officials in 2 Samuel 8 and 1 Chronicles 18 with Josephus' version in Ant. 7.96-110. The results are: Josephus worked with a variety of text-forms of the biblical sources. He constantly subjects them to amplification, up to an extended insertion drawn from Nicolas of Damascus in Ant. 7.101-103. Deletions of material in his sources, on the other hand, are few. More often, he rearranges the sources' sequence. Furthermore, there are various types of adaptation/modification of his source material, stylistically, terminologically, and as regards contents (simplification, clarification). Josephus accentuates the military prowess of David as well as his magnanimity, but no less than his biblical sources ascribes David's triumphs to divine support. His audience consists of two groups, Gentiles and Jews. The Gentiles are cured of the prejudice that the Jews had produced no figures of distinction comparable to those of Greco-Roman antiquity. The Jewish audience, living in the aftermath of the Romans' repression of their recent revolt, might be encouraged by the account of David's triumph over enemy peoples". Keywords: Antiquities |