By Cohen
Josephus, a Palestinian Jew, authored "Bellum Judaicum", which chronicled the Jewish rebel opposed to Rome all started in sixty six advert in Jerusalem, and approximately two decades later wrote "Antiquitates Judaicae", a research of Jewish historical past from the construction to sixty six advert. In either "Bellum Judaicum" and the "Vita", an appendix to "Antiquitates Judaicae", Josephus bargains along with his personal rule within the battle. even if either works have apologetic goals, Josephus adjustments his tale from one paintings to the subsequent. by way of viewing those works within the better context of Josephus's lifestyles and never in isolation from each other, Shaye J.D. Cohen lines Josephus's improvement as a historian, as an apologist, and as a Jew. Cohen bases ancient reconstruction of Josephus's participation within the conflict on a delineation of particular contradictions among the 2 works, a survey of the scholarship at the topic, a dialogue of the literary courting among the 2 records, an research of the way Josephus taken care of his resources, and a close research of either the "Bellum Judaicum" and the "Vita".
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A somewhat different picture is drawn b y H. Trankle, Livius und Polybios (Basel/Stuttgart 1977), who emphasizes Livy's essential fidelity to Polybius and minimizes the in trusion of Livy's own interpretations and prejudices into the narrative. See Trankle's summary 243-245. Whether L i v y is thus an exception to the classical norm requires confirmation. J. Palm, Ueber Sprache und Stil des Diodorus von Sizilien (Lund 1955) 27-55, especially the summaries on 47-48 and 55. Diodorus follows the same technique with Thucydides (Palm 60-62).
Later writers, arguing that the narrative units of a history had to be clear (σαφής) and readily understandable, determined that this goal was attained best through thematic organization. Precise chronology should be sacrificed for the sake of clarity. Polybius agreed that a history had to be clear but claimed that his own chronological method was as clear as, and more accurate than, the accepted thematic method. L i v y and Tacitus struggled, not always with success, to reconcile the Roman annalistic tradition with the demands of Greek historiography.
J too explicitly refers to it at least twice. 496) that the author need not dwell upon well known facts. " Josephus admits that he is concerned more about the coherence of his narrative than about the accuracy of his relative chronology. 43-53 which describes the history of the Jews of Antioch from Seleucid times until 67 CE. , Josephus explains why he has ignored the chronological order in favor of a thematic one. Here too there was ample Greek precedent. In contrast to Thucydides, who had adhered to a strict chronological scheme, Ephorus preferred a thematic arrangement (κατά γένος, F G r H 70 Τ ι ι = Diod.