Josephus Antiquities 3.1.173

Steven Cox scox at ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net
Tue Jun 30 07:17:48 EDT 1998


        I guess my question was really about how trustworthy the
        textus receptus of Josephus is? In the example I chose, 
        (which was suggested by how very *unlike* Enoch it is) 
        Josephus follows the tradition of LXX Alexandrinus over 
        Vaticanus, but does that prove anything? ..that the 
        manuscripts used by Niese have followed the same 
        transmission process as Alexandrinus?? 
        
        I'll confess that the only thing I know about the texts
        of Josephus concerns the Testimonium Flavianum - let us
        say it is interpolation rather than outright forgery -
        but either way it doesn't encourage belief that the text
        hasn't suffered from Christian transmission.

        Does Niese have a critical apparatus?? If not who does?
        Anyone know anything about the Josephus MSS?

        Cheers
        Steven

        PS: Ben - Thanks for comments. Enoch does not have either
        AGGELOI TOU QEOU or UIOI TOU QEOU but only AGGELOI UIOI 
        OURANOI (once) and EGRHGOROI UIOI TOU OURANOU (once). 
        (There appears to be nervousness about ascribing fatherhood
        to God, or even using the word QEOS at all (once I think). 
        Mankind, btw, is UIOI THS GHS or UIOI ANQRWPWN.





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