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| Title: Two Apologetic Encomia: Dionysius on Rome and Josephus on the Jews Secondary Title: JSJ Volume: 13 Pages: 102-122 Type: Journal Article Year: 1982 Abstract: "Comparaison de deux éloges avec le modèle proposé par Ménandre de Laodicée: éloge de Rome par Denys d'Halicarnasse en Ant. rom. I,9-II,29, et éloge des Juifs par Josèphe en Contre Apion II,145-295. // In Contra Ap. 2:145-295, Josephus praises Moses' politeia by following the rhetorical pattern (outlined by Menander of Laodicea) for the encomium of a city or people in response to previous slander. The same pattern is evident in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' praise of Rome (Roman Antiquities 1.9-2.29). // The literary pattern that a rhetorician was to use in praising a city first ""as a country"" and then ""as a man"" (origins, habits, deeds) was most elaborately described by Menander of Laodicea. This pattern was followed by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his apologetic encomium of Rome in Roman Antiquities 1:9-2:29, and by Josephus in his apologetic encomium of the Jews in Against Apion 2:145-295. - D.J.H." Keywords: New Testament / Early Christianity |