Bibliography
| Title: The concept of exile in Josephus Secondary Title: Exile. Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian conceptions Pages: 145-172 Type: Book Section Year: 1997 Abstract: Begg, Christopher T. in: OTA 21.3 (1998), 508-509: "Josephus' writings evidence an ambiguity with regard to the Diaspora situation of his people. Overall, in light both of the sensitivities of his Roman patrons and his own experiences, Josephus avoids speaking of that situation as a punishment ("exile") which will one day be reversed. With his Jewish audience in mind, Josephus does on occasion intimate, however, that the current situation of his coreligionists, living mostly outside the Holy Land and under the domination of a foreign power, will one day come to an end as prophets like Daniel had announced".
Grabbe, Lester L. in: JSJ 31.1 (2000), 110: "Louis H. Feldman argues that Josephus sees the exile as positive overall, as a sort of colonizing. Some negative statements can be explained as for the benefit of Jewish readers (though Josephus' main audience was Greco-Roman". Keywords: Josephus as Theologian |