Josephus Antiquities 3.1.173

Jim West jwest at Highland.Net
Tue Jun 30 08:24:42 EDT 1998


At 07:17 PM 6/30/98 +0800, you wrote:
>        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?? 
>        

Ask Ben Wright over on Ioudaios.  He knows all this stuff.  Its possible
that Josephus and Genesis have been harmonized in the transmission process.

>        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?

Ben does.  Or ask Torrey Seland, also on Ioudaios.  In fact, Ioudaios was
started as a Josephus research spot...
If you want to subscribe, let me know and I will pass along the address.

>
>        Cheers
>        Steven

Best,

Jim

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