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Religions, 2020 Josephus refers explicitly to Alexander Janneus in his narratives in both War and Antiquities only as king. Janneus’s high priestly office is only implied, and that in a context that is hostile to him (War 1.88//Ant. 13.372).
Vasile Babota
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Andrew Melville, sacred chronology and world history: the Carmina Danielis 9 and the Antichristus [PDF]
, 2009 The accepted view of the ecclesiastical reformer Andrew Melville (1545–1622) as the dynamic leader of the Presbyterian movement in Jacobean Scotland has been severely eroded in recent years, with particular criticism of the actual importance of his ...
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The demise of Joshua according to Josephus
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007 This article focuses on Josephus’ account of the end of Joshua in his Ant. 5.115-119. It offers a detailed comparison between that account and its biblical source (Jos 23-24) on the one hand, and two other postbiblical narrations of Joshua’s demise, that
Christopher T. Begg
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Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2021 This article offers a literary analysis of the famous episode in Judean War 3.351–354, in which Josephus suddenly recalls his “nightly dreams.” It takes up the question of how Josephus characterizes himself in this episode in consideration of an elite ...
J. Glas
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Josephus’ Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives
Vetus Testamentum (Print), 2021 Athaliah in Josephus is rarely studied. This paper thus seeks to build on Christopher Begg’s text-critical work by discussing the literary effect of Josephus’ embellishments to the Athaliah narratives. Athaliah in Josephus is shown to be more explicitly
C. Quine, Joseph Scales
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'Great expectation among the learned': Edward Bernard's Josephus in Restoration Oxford [PDF]
, 2016 This article traces the problematic editorial work of the Oxford scientist and scholar Edward Bernard (1638-1697) in editing Josephus, and draws out the implications of this story for our understanding of the scholarly and polemical contexts within which
Roebuck, Thomas
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Block Josephus Problem: When the Reality is More Cruel Than the Old Story
, 2021 In the Josephus Problem, there are $n$ people numbered from $0$ to $n-1$ around a circle and proceeding around the circle every second person is executed until no one survives.
Jangbae Park +2 more
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La traducción según Flavio Josefo
Erga-LogoiTranslation according to Flavius Josephus As a contribution to the clarification of the identity of Flavius Josephus, the present material aims to elucidate what role Josephus played as a translator of the Holy Scriptures.
Fátima Aguayo Hidalgo
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The crossing of the Jordan according to Josephus
Acta Theologica, 2006 This study offers a detailed examination of Josephus’ retelling (in Ant. 5.16-21) of the account of Israel’s crossing of the Jordan and its immediate sequels found in Joshua 3-5.
C. Begg
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A Novel Plaintext-Related Image Encryption Scheme Based on Chaotic System and Pixel Permutation
IEEE Access, 2020 To improve the abilities of image encryption systems to resist plaintext attacks and differential attacks, a novel plaintext-related image encryption scheme based on Josephus traversing and pixel permutation is proposed. In this scheme, the step sizes of
Ying Niu, Xuncai Zhang
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