Re: Josephus and Magi

• To: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
• Subject: Re: Josephus and Magi
• From: Larry Swain <lswain@wln.com>
• Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
• Cc: Biblical Greek <b-greek@virginia.edu>
• In-Reply-To: <199409290555.BAA21734@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>

Thank you Bob.  The problem would be McNamara's in this case.  I have 
left the article at home, so will have to post it this evening.  I recall 
that he deals with that in his article, but I don't remember the specific 
passage or how he gets around the fact that Mag- is usually negative in 
Jewish and Christian literature.

>From another angle however, if Magoi is being used to describe Essenes 
rather than Persians it does not follow that Matthew is presenting them 
in a positive light so much as they come off better than Herod and the 
chief priests-lesser of three evils.  Just a musing.



-Larry Swain
Parmly Billings Library
lswain@billings.lib.mt.us

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