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| Title: De quelques sémitismes de Flavius Josèphe Secondary Title: REG Volume: 100 Pages: 18-29 Type: Journal Article Year: 1987 Abstract: "The advisers who supposedly assisted Josephus in redacting his War were not at all interested in the purity of his language: their task consisted of deleting anything unfavourable to Vespasian". - C.S.
"The Greek style of Josephus' Jewish War was influenced more by Thucydides than by the historical books of the Bible. Despite some Semitisms (as a survey of book 5 shows), it appears that Josephus received a solid Hellenic formation and could use Greek competently. His collaborators on the Work were probably concerned more with its political content than with its Greek language". - D.J.H.
"Les sémitismes sont très rares dans le B.J. L'influece des historiens grecs, hotamment du style de Thucydide, est au contraire patente. Josèphe avait recu une éducation grecque, probablement à Césarée de Palestine. Les conseillers qui l'ont assisté dans la rédaction de son ouvrage ne s'intéressaient nullement à la correction de la langue; leur mission était politique". Keywords: History of Terms, language, style |