Saturday, June 22, 2019

Josephus, Jeremiah, and the Essenes

WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF JOSEPHUS, Bible History Daily has a couple of recent essays on him:

Titus Flavius Josephus and the Prophet Jeremiah. Avishai Margalit contrasts the legacies of a historian and a prophet. That's an interesting way to think about him.

Josephus on the Essenes.

Both essays link to BAR articles that give additional information, but are behind the subscription wall.

There are many, many, past PaleoJudaica posts on Josephus. For some of them, see here and links. For the rest, see the archives.

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