Moses among the Greek lawgivers : reading Josephus' Antiquities through Plutarch's Lives / by Ursula Westwood

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023

1 Online-Ressource (XII, 264 Seiten)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Moses among the Greek lawgivers. - Leiden : Brill, 2023. - xii, 264 Seiten

978-90-04-68193-4 ebook

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-68134-7 (Druckausgabe) hardback

DOI: 10.1163/9789004681934

Legends of lawgivers -- Introducing Moses the lawgiver -- Giving the law -- Leaving the law.

*Plutarchus *45-120* / Josephus, Flavius *37-100*. Antiquitates Judaicae / Bibel. Pentateuch / Recht / Jüdisches Recht / Judentum / Griechenland <Altertum>

*Josephus, Flavius -- Antiquitates Judaicae ; Plutarch -- Lives ; Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish ; Law, Greek -- History ; Jewish law ; Jewish law -- History ; Judaism -- Apologetic works -- History and criticism

*Bible - Critique, interprétation, etc. juives ; Antiquitates Judaicae (Josephus, Flavius) ; Bible ; Lives (Plutarch) ; Droit juif ; Droit juif - Histoire ; Judaïsme - Ouvrages apologétiques - Histoire et critique ; Droit grec - Histoire ; Jewish law ; Judaism - Apologetic works ; Law, Greek ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: KBM524

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 340.5/8

Book Industry Communication: HRJ

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"Josephus' Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver ? This book uses Plutarch's Lives as an proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus' choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus' intriguing and lively account of Moses' legislative activities"--

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