Language:
French
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Le Muséon; revue d'études orientales
Angaben zur Quelle:
100,1-4 (1987) 49-65
Keywords:
Moses Philosophy
;
Artapanus
;
Manetho
;
Jews History To 600
;
Antisemitism History To 500
;
Antisemitism History To 500
;
Egypt History To 332 B.C.
Abstract:
Analyzes the reply by Artapan (a 2nd century BCE Jewish historian living in Egypt), preserved in the writings of Eusebius, to the anti-Jewish Egyptian Manetho. Compares his description of Moses to the description by Manetho found in Josephus' "Contra Apionem". According to Manetho, Moses was the leader of a revolt of lepers and cripples against Egyptian religion, and they were expelled from Egypt after their defeat. Artapan presents Moses as a divinely guided philosopher, physician, and inventor, who reorganized Egyptian life and religion in the spirit of the Greek mysteries and left Egypt at the orders of God. Suggests that Artapan's account combines a detailed answer to Manetho with a reworking of an existing "Life of Moses", conflated with incidents from Joseph's career in Egypt. It was possibly intended for a Greek audience as well as to reassure Jews.
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