| <pb n="45" /><head>A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF JOSEPHUS AS AN AUTHOR</head><p>In the Introduction I have advocated a "composition-critical" approach to Josephus's descriptions of the Pharisees. Those descriptions are to be interpreted in the light of the author's motives and outlook. Such an approach, however, presupposes to some extent that Josephus can justly be regarded as the author of the passages under discussion. Is that assumption justified, at least as a working hypothesis? Three factors might seem to militate against it and must be considered here.</p> |
