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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Autor principal: Rotman, Marco (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: 2018
En: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Año: 2018, Volumen: 49, Número: 1, Páginas: 68-83
Otras palabras clave:B Juan der Täufer
B Josephus, Flavius (37-100)
B John the Baptist Flavius Josephus Josephus manuscripts textual criticism conjectural criticism
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Sumario: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
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12491167