Agnes Judith Goppinger, *Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque: Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae*. Leiden: Brill, 2026
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Agnes Judith Goppinger, *Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Iudaea Virisque: Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae*. Leiden: Brill, 2026
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Josephus' Antiquities offers a thoughtful and detailed exploration of Jewish history, tracing its arc from the world's origins to the outbreak of the Jewish War. Yet we might pause to consider a meaningful question: whose stories truly shape this historical record? This examination compassionately investigates how Josephus portrayed Moses, David, Judas Maccabee, and Agrippa I, recognizing how he drew upon Roman exempla as his literary framework. In doing so, Josephus crafted these four Jewish leaders in ways that honored both Roman structural and formal conventions while authentically preserving their deeply Jewish identity. Through this nuanced approach, Josephus achieves something remarkable—he not only demonstrates that Jewish exemplary figures deserve recognition equal to their Roman counterparts, but he ultimately surpasses Roman achievements in their celebrated domains of superiority, enduring legacy, and unwavering moral integrity.