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

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.