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demolition of the 'assistant theory', the idea (in the development of which Thackeray was, for once, a guility party) that Josephus' Greek was, in Antiquities as much as Bellum, written by a team of Greeks who compensated for his inadequacies and whose idiosyncrasies are detectable. It is surprising how hard that particular notion dies. Bilde's own picture of Josephus unfolds through his analysis and is set forth in chapter 5. There is not a great deal that is strikingly new in it, but it is none the worse for that. One area in which a new slant does emerge is where Bilde makes the connection between Josephus as priest and prophet and his view of himself as historian (pp. 189-91). However, the interesting idea that the Vita is to be seen as the autobiographical self-presentation which supports his claim (as priestly man of action) to be a serious historian in the Greek mould requires more support than it receives, and some discussion of what the ancients meant by a bios is indispensable. The contrast on which Bilde sometimes rests, between Greek and Oriental, also requires a more searching exploration, and recent re-evaluations of Hellenism will probably necessitate a deeper revisi

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Author

A. E. Harvey

Publisher

Journal of Jewish Studies

Published

1990

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)