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Volume 75 › Table of Contents › Article Abstract
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The Levites in Josephus
Christopher T. Begg, The Catholic University of America |
Various scholars have opined, on the basis of one or other text of the Antiquities, that
Josephus evidences an "anti-Levite" tendency. This article systematically examines
all uses of "levitical terminology" in the Antiquities (the only writing of the Josephan
corpus to use this terminology). From the examination it emerges that Josephus does
not evidence any consistent, thorough-going tendency to denigrate the Levites or
minimalize their role in Israel's history. While he does this on occasion, on other occasions
he introduces references to the Levites and their activities where the Bible itself
lacks these.
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