4.0841 Rs: Josephus Flavius (2/26)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 17 Dec 90 22:54:00 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0841. Monday, 17 Dec 1990.
(1) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:31:42 -0500 (10 lines)
From: Neel Smith <nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu>
Subject: Josephus
(2) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:54:46 MST (16 lines)
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 4.0829 Etext Q: Josephus Flavius
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:31:42 -0500
From: Neel Smith <nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu>
Subject: Josephus
If Michael Strangelove is looking for e-texts of the first century author
of the Antiquitates Judaicae, Flavius Josephus, he is author 526 in the
TLG Canon; his Vita is the second of four works of Josephus in the TLG.
Neel Smith
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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 09:54:46 MST
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Re: 4.0829 Etext Q: Josephus Flavius (1/11)
I suspect that when Josephus is said to have hung his sword around his
neck, what is meant is simply than he girded it on, i.e., that he armed
himself. The expression "hanging around the neck," like "girding on"
simply expresses literally the manner in which the sword was slung. I
believe that swords were slung on shoulder belts in a number of Ancient
cultures, rather than on waist belts. There were also differences as to
the side on which the sword hung, depending on the culture and its
military needs and customs. This could be verified in a suitable
reference on arms and armor, though I can't cite one from memory. The
choice of color is likely to be symbolic of his mood or situation, too,
but I can't elucidate that.