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| Title: An Ass in the Jerusalem Temple. The Origins and Development of the Slander Secondary Title: Josephus' Contra Apionem. Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek Pages: 310-326 Type: Book Section Year: 1996 Abstract: Begg, Christopher T. in: OTA 20.2 (1997), 300: "The "ass-libel" cited by Josephus in his Contra Apionem is known in several variants: a statue of Moses mounted on an ass, an ass alone, or simply the head of an ass, stood in the Jerusalem Temple as an object of worhsip. B.-K. attempts to trace the origins and tradition-history of the libel. He concludes that the first two of the above variants emerged in Persian-period Egypt, while the ass-head variant arose ca. 200 B.C. in Idumea, whence it was taken up by Apion." Keywords: Josephus as Apologist, Ancient anti-Judaism |