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Again on the Episode of the Gilded Roman Shields at Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Gideon Fuks
Gideon Fuks
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University of Haifa
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , October 1982 , pp. 503 - 507
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1982

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References

1 Grant, Michael, The Jews in the Roman World (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973) 102.Google Scholar

2 For general bibliography up to 19 70, see OCD2, s.v. Pontius Pilatus. Articles related to specific matters concerning Pilate's Judaean career will be mentioned below.

3 For an intermediate bibliography, see Scürer, EmilThe History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (rev. and ed. by Vermes, G. and Millar, F.; Edinburgh: T. ST. Clark, 1973) 1. 358 n. 22.Google Scholar

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5 Legatio §§ 299–305. It is immaterial to our discussion whether Agrippa did in fact write such a letter to Gaius or whether the letter originates in Philo's theology (so: Zeitlin, Solomon, “Did Agrippa Write a Letter to Gaius Caligula?” JQR 56 [1965] 22–31)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. What concerns us here is this short notice of an event no doubt historical.

6 Ibid., § 299, trans. Smallwood, E. Mary, Philonis Alexandrini Legatici ad Gaium (2d ed.; Leiden: Brill, 1970).Google Scholar

7 On the possible identity of these four sons, see Smallwood, Legatio, 303.

8 He was possibly afraid that the removal of the shields could have been interpreted in Rome as an insult to the emperor.

9 Bell. 2.169–74; Ant. 18.55–59.

10 For a thorough treatment of this episode, see Kraeling, Carl H., “The Episode of the Roman Standards at Jerusalem”, HTR 35 (1942) 263–89CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 On the date, see below.

12 Schürer;, Emil, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1901) 1. 491–92.Google Scholar

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14 Smallwood, Legatio, p. 302; Maier, Paul L., “The Episode of the Golden Roman Shields at Jerusalem”, HTR 62 (1969) 111–14CrossRefGoogle Scholar. In recent years, only Colson continued to maintain that these are variant traditions of a single episode: Philo, trans. Golson, F. H. (10 vols.; LCL; London: Heinemann, 1962) 10. xix-xx.Google Scholar

15 So already Schü Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes, 1. 492 n. 147.

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18 Kraeling, “Episode”, 277.

19 Maier, “Episode”, 109–21.

20 Philo Legatio §§ 157,317; Josephus Bell. 2.197; C. Apion. 2.77.

21 Maier, “Episode”, 118. The reference to the shields in Alexandria: Philo Legatio § 133.

22 Brandon, Samuel George Frederick, Jesus and the Zealots (Manchester: Manchester University, 1967) 74Google Scholar. Hoehner (Herod Antipas, 179) endorsed this proposal.

23 Smallwood, Legatio, p. 304.

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