{"id":1855,"date":"2014-10-10T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?page_id=1855"},"modified":"2022-02-10T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:43:57","slug":"structure-of-against-apion-supplement-to-antiquity-of-the-judeans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/harlands-courses\/course-outline-for-the-conflict-of-religions-in-the-roman-empire-hist-5025-2014\/structure-of-against-apion-supplement-to-antiquity-of-the-judeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure of Josephus&#8217; <i>Against Apion<\/i> (his supplement to <i>Antiquities of the Judeans<\/i>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.1-1.218: Antiquity of Judean customs and way of life (despite claims to the contrary and the neglect or ignorance of Greek historians)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greek historians are largely silent because of the remoteness of Judea from Greece<\/li>\n<li>Neighbouring peoples who are better record keepers than even the Greeks do know about the antiquity of Judean culture: (1) Egyptians, (2) Phoenicians, and (3) Chaldeans,<\/li>\n<li>(4) Greeks: Even some Greek historians do allude to Judean history or some Greek authors speak of encounters with individual Judeans: Hecataeus (1.183-204) \u2013 generally neutral or even positive in descriptions; Agatharchides (1.205-212) \u2013 negative; Silence of other Greek historians out of envy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1.219-2.296: Exposure of the fictitious accusations against Judeans and their customs which originated among <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Egyptians<\/span> motivated by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hatred and envy<\/span> and rooted in the debased character of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">animal-worshipping<\/span> Egyptians (i.e. countering the ethnographic materials about Judeans)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.228-287 : <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Manetho<\/span>: The Egyptian leper origin of Judeans (Osarsiph = Moses)<\/li>\n<li>1.288-303: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chaeremon<\/span>: Slight adjustment<\/li>\n<li>1.304-320: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Lysimachos<\/span>: King Bocchoris and the consultation of the oracle (cf. Tacitus)<\/li>\n<li>2.1-2.144: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Apion<\/span> \u2013 base Egyptian with faulty character: Three types of material used by Apion to critique Judeans: 1) Exodus story (8-32); 2) Indictments against Judeans at Alexandria (33-78); 3) Temple and Judean customs (with Posidonius and Apollonios Molon as sources for Apion) (78-144)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2.145-296 \u2013 Positive description of Judean laws and customs aimed at debunking the false pictures offered by Apollonios Molon, Lysimachos and others \u2013 particularly refuting the \u201catheist\u201d and \u201cmisanthrope\u201d accusations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Moses as ideal legislator and the Judean theocrasy: true piety (counter atheism) and good treatment of fellows (counter misanthropy): <strong>1)<\/strong> Greek lawgivers and philosophers depend on Moses; <strong>2)<\/strong> Outline of key aspects of Judean customs; <strong>3)<\/strong> Treatment of foreigners** (209-210)<\/li>\n<li>Judean customs superior to other peoples, even Greeks (2.237-270): <strong>1)<\/strong> Greek gods and myths inferior; <strong>2)<\/strong> Greek treatment of foreigners implies that they, more than Judeans, could be accused of misanthropy (Spartans, Athenians, etc) (see 258 ff); <strong>3)<\/strong> Greeks imitate or emulate Moses and the Judean laws and customs (2.279-286)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>2.287-296: Conclusion \u2013 Judeans teach true piety (not impiety \/ atheism) and proper relations among people (not misanthropy) \u2013 anything else is a lie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 1.1-1.218: Antiquity of Judean customs and way of life (despite claims to the contrary and the neglect or ignorance of Greek historians) Greek historians are largely silent because of the remoteness of Judea from Greece Neighbouring peoples who are better record keepers than even the Greeks do know about the antiquity of Judean culture: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":1575,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1855","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1855\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}