Villains Called Sicarii: A Commonplace for Rhetorical Vituperation in the Texts of Flavius Josephus
Examining the presentation of sicarii in Flavius Josephus’s Judean War from a rhetorical perspective, this article argues that each reference to sicarii alludes to the clauses of a Roman law concerning sicarii, which Josephus has used as a commonplace for rhetorical vituperation against particular g...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 475-507 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sicarii
Flavius Josephus
Jewish revolt (66-70 ce)
ancient rhetoric
vituperation
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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