Josephus' and Philo's Retelling of Numbers 31 Compared

Begg, Christopher T.

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“…Kvasnica (2008) looks at three Second Temple texts on plundering, and finds that, in contrast to the Old Testament, they had ethical qualms about plundering. Studies of the portrayal of various wars in the work of Philo, Pseudo-Philo, and Josephus have been popular, including the battles with: the Amalekites (Begg 1996, 1997; Feldman 2002a, 2004; Maier 2004); Sihon and Og (Feldman 2002b); the Midianites (Begg 2007b); the command to wipe out the seven nations of the Canaanites (Feldman 2003); the fall of Jericho (Begg 2005); the exploits of Deborah and Jael (Begg 2007a); and the Benjamite war (Begg 1998). Angel (2006) surveys the evidence for the Chaoskampf myth from 515 bce to 200 ce , and Whitney (2006) looks at Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism.…”

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Recent Research on Warfare in the Old Testament

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2012

Currents in Biblical Research

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In an introduction to the English translation of Gerhard von Rad’s classic work Holy War in Ancient Israel, Ollenburger (1991) reviewed the major contributions on the topic of warfare through to 1990. My article will update Ollenburger’s survey with new research on warfare in the Old Testament from 1990 to 2010, treating historicity, broad histories of warfare, and diversity of warfare. In addition, this article expands Ollenburger’s survey by looking at recent research on other topics connected to warfare (herem, warfare in Psalms and Chronicles, military history, and ethics), and at new perspectives on warfare (ancient Near Eastern connections, feminism, peace, and early reception history).

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