TY - JOUR
T1 - The "others" Coming to John the Baptist and the Text of Josephus
AU - Rotman, Marco
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Josephus's passage on John the Baptist (Ant. 18.116-119) contains a much-discussed crux interpretum: who are the "others" that are inspired by John's words and ready to do everything he said (§118), and who are distinguished from those who gave heed to his message and were baptized (§117)? After a brief discussion of the textual witnesses, text, and translation of the passage in question, various interpretations of "the others" are discussed, none of which is entirely satisfactory. In this article a case will be made for accepting the conjecture originally proposed by Benedikt Niese, who assumed that Josephus originally wrote νθρπων "people" instead of λλων "others."
AB - Josephus's passage on John the Baptist (Ant. 18.116-119) contains a much-discussed crux interpretum: who are the "others" that are inspired by John's words and ready to do everything he said (§118), and who are distinguished from those who gave heed to his message and were baptized (§117)? After a brief discussion of the textual witnesses, text, and translation of the passage in question, various interpretations of "the others" are discussed, none of which is entirely satisfactory. In this article a case will be made for accepting the conjecture originally proposed by Benedikt Niese, who assumed that Josephus originally wrote νθρπων "people" instead of λλων "others."
KW - Conjectural criticism
KW - Flavius Josephus
KW - John the Baptist
KW - Josephus manuscripts
KW - Textual criticism
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U2 - 10.1163/15700631-12491167
DO - 10.1163/15700631-12491167
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043503644
SN - 0047-2212
VL - 49
SP - 68
EP - 83
JO - Journal for the Study of Judaism
JF - Journal for the Study of Judaism
IS - 1
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