Zwischen Investitur und Testament: Beobachtungen zur Rezeption des Josuabuches im Liber antiquitatum biblicarum

Full title
Zwischen Investitur und Testament: Beobachtungen zur Rezeption des Josuabuches im Liber antiquitatum biblicarum
Research notes

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Reference type
Author(s)
Reinmuth, Eckart
Year
2002
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
Volume
16
Number of volumes
0
Issue / Series Volume
1
Pages
24-43
Language
Label
29/05/2006
Abstract

The reception of the book of Joshua in the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum shows exemplarily how Pseudo-Philo thinks about “history” and how he unfolds its meaning by using arguments and stories. The contemporary memory and the theological reflection are realized by various biblical references. The main themes of the discourse on which Pseudo-Philo is participating are questions of the rehabilitee of the land-promise and of the legitimate leadership in Israel under the horizon of God’s loyalty to his covenant. Thus Pseudo-Philo reads the book of Joshua transparently for the threats of “Israel” in his own time.

Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Composition / Author
Passage
20^24