Prophecy in Roman Judaea: Did Josephus Report the Failure of an ‘Exact Succession of the Prophets' (Against Apion 1.41)?

In Ag. Ap. 1.41, after stressing that the Jewish holy books are rightly trusted because only prophets wrote them, Josephus remarks that Judaeans do not trust later writings in the same way. The reason he gives is usually translated as "the failure of the exact succession of the prophets."...

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Main Author: Mason, Steve 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 524-556
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Josephus, Flavius 37-100 / Historiography / Judaism / Greece (Antiquity) / Holy books / Canon / Prophecy
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
Further subjects:B Greek historiography
B Jewish historiography
B Canon
B Scripture
B Flavius Josephus
B Jewish-Greek relations
B Jewish-Christian relations
B Prophecy
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