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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Auteur principal: Rotman, Marco (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2018
Dans: Journal for the study of Judaism
Année: 2018, Volume: 49, Numéro: 1, Pages: 68-83
Sujets non-standardisés:B John the Baptist Flavius Josephus Josephus manuscripts textual criticism conjectural criticism
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Résumé: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.”
ISSN:1570-0631
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12491167