>Jim, when do you date Josephus? Why? (BTW how do you deal with the
>contradiction between Ant. 1.17 and Ant 4.197? Do you think there was two
>authors?)
Moshe,
this is more a discussion for Ioudaios- dont you think? In the present
thread we are discussing historiography in the Hebrew Bible and evidence
like manuscripts and the like. Josephus, interesting though he is, is not
the Hebrew Bible.