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8 - A Classical World of Biblical Exempla

Suicide and Patriotism in De Excidio 3.16–17

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

Carson Bay
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Universität Bern, Switzerland
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Chapter 8 assesses De Excidio 3.16–17, a set of speeches made after the Battle of Jotapata (66 CE) by Josephus’ Jewish comrades and then by Flavius Josephus, the Jewish general, himself. The chapter shows how Pseudo-Hegesippus articulates and plays with very Roman ideas of death, war, and virtue by inserting biblical exempla into these two speeches, which are radically changed and rewritten from the Greek versions found in Josephus’ Jewish War.

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Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus
, pp. 241 - 268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • A Classical World of Biblical Exempla
  • Carson Bay, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book: Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
  • Online publication: 10 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268523.009
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  • Carson Bay, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book: Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
  • Online publication: 10 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268523.009
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  • A Classical World of Biblical Exempla
  • Carson Bay, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book: Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
  • Online publication: 10 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268523.009
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