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| Title: Josephus and Polybius: A Reconsideration Secondary Title: Classical Antiquity Volume: 9 Pages: 175-208 Type: Journal Article Year: 1990 Abstract: ""Polybius's intellectual influence on Josephus extended [...] to the way Josephus represented to his Greek-speaking audience crucial aspects of the story of the Jewish Revolt". Likewise, Polybius seems to have inspired Josephus in his "understandig and depiction of the sources of Rome's hegemony in the Mediterranean" and in "the consequent lessons in practical political behavior that Josephus deduced from them"". - A. Hilhorst
"Josephus knew and used Polybius, as is evident from a close examination of the Polybian historiographical motifs and word view in Josephus' work". Keywords: Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo |