Bibliography
| Title: History and Historiography in the Against Apion of Josephus Secondary Title: Essays in Jewish Historiography. In memoriam Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, 1908-1987 Pages: 1-11 Type: Book Section Year: 1988 Abstract: "In C, Josephus gives his fullest statement on historical method. He both depends on and criticises Greek historiography".
"Josephus' conception of history as absolute, objective truth is derived from the Hebrew Bible and is very non-Greek. Although the Against Apion sides with the Orientals against the Greeks, when Josephus turns to the real labor of historical criticism in defense of his people, he attacks not Greeks but fellow Oriental historians, almost exclusively Egyptian". Keywords: Contra Apionem |