The “Others” Coming to John the Baptist and the Text of Josephus
Josephus’s passage on John the Baptist (Ant. 18.116-119) contains a much-discussed crux interpretum: who are the “others” that are inspired by John’s words and ready to do everything he said (§118), and who are distinguished from those who gave heed to his message and were baptized (§117)? After a b...
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Brill
2018
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Jahr: 2018, Band: 49, Heft: 1, Seiten: 68-83 |
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John the Baptist
Flavius Josephus
Josephus manuscripts
textual criticism
conjectural criticism
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| Zusammenfassung: | Josephus’s passage on John the Baptist (Ant. 18.116-119) contains a much-discussed crux interpretum: who are the “others” that are inspired by John’s words and ready to do everything he said (§118), and who are distinguished from those who gave heed to his message and were baptized (§117)? After a brief discussion of the textual witnesses, text, and translation of the passage in question, various interpretations of “the others” are discussed, none of which is entirely satisfactory. In this article a case will be made for accepting the conjecture originally proposed by Benedikt Niese, who assumed that Josephus originally wrote ἀνθρώπων “people” instead of ἄλλων “others.” |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12491167 |