Prophecy in Roman Judaea:

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" Prophecy in Roman Judaea: "
Steve Mason

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075516
Doc. No	:	LA119145
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12505293‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Steve Mason
Title & Author	:	Prophecy in Roman Judaea: [Article] : Did Josephus Report the Failure of an ‘Exact Succession of the Prophets’ (Against Apion 1.41)?\ Steve Mason
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	50/4-5
Page No	:	524–556
Abstract	:	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.” Whereas older scholarship played down this reason to insist on the absence of prophecy in post-biblical Judaism, the prevailing view today holds that Josephus meant only to qualify later prophecy, not to exclude it. This essay broaches the more basic question of what an ἀκριβὴς διαδοχή means. Arguing that an exact diachronic succession of prophets makes little sense, it offers two proposals that better suit Josephus’ argument. It further contends that Josephus is talking about the ancient Judaean past, the subject of this work, not about the work of later historians including himself. He distinguishes sharply between prophecy and historical inquiry.
Descriptor	:	canon
Descriptor	:	Flavius Josephus
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Greek historiography
Descriptor	:	Jewish historiography
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Jewish-Christian relations
Descriptor	:	Jewish-Greek relations
Descriptor	:	prophecy
Descriptor	:	Scripture
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12505293‬