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  • 3 - Abraham, Ethnography, Exemplarity, and Oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1

  • Carson Bay, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book:
    Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity
    Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022, pp 98-126

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 explores how Pseudo-Hegesippus uses the figure of the patriarch Abraham, along with several other biblical heroes, to drive a variegated discourse of Jewish ethnography throughout De Excidio. By zeroing in on two passages where Abraham and other Bible figures are used to talk about “what the Jews are like” (i.e., ethnic stereotyping), Pseudo-Hegesippus shows himself familiar with ancient ethnographic conventions and uses ethnography to present various pictures of the Jewish national character in the mouths of both Roman and Jewish narrative characters.