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| Title: Josephus' Portrait of Jehoiachin Secondary Title: PAPS Volume: 139 Pages: 11-31 Type: Journal Article Year: 1995 Abstract: in: AnPh 66 (1995), 192: "Josephus in A 10.98-102 gives a complimentary description of Jehoiachin for apologetic purposes. Also, because Josephus himself acted in a fashion similar to that of Jehoiachin in surrendering to the enemy, he felt a need to defend Jehoiachin's decision".
Begg, Christopher T. in: OTA 20.2 (1997), 302: "The Bible (2 Kgs 24,9; 2 Chr 36,9) censures Jehoiachin as a king who "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord". Josephus' assessment (Ant. 10.100, cf. BJ 6.103-104) is strikingly different: Jehoiachin was a "kind and just" ruler. F. explains Josephus' "rehabilitation" of Jehoiachin in terms of the historian's seeing in that king's surrender of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in order to spare the city harm a precedent for / legitimation of his own surrender to the Romans and his appeal to the defenders of Jerusalem to do the same. Jehoiachin's "rehabilitation" by Josephus has a certain parallel in Rabbinic tradition where, however, the emphasis is on the king's repentance during his long period of imprisionment in Babylon - a feature absent in the historian's own presentation". Keywords: Antiquities |