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Topic: The Egyptian and the Sicarii per Josephus (1 Post)

Message: The Egyptian and the Sicarii per Josephus
Posted by [tmoore1008] on Saturday, 17-May-2008 18:28:36 UTC Revised by [tmoore1008] on Saturday, 17-May-2008 18:38:06 UTC
Josephus describes the men of the sicarii (whom he named as such in Antiquities 2:8:10) as being men who carry very short, easily concealable, daggers who mingled with the crowds during festivals and stabbed their opponents in broad daylight. Then following this, as a separate account, in Antiquities 20:8:6, Josephus mentioned some "impostors and deceivers" who persuaded the multitude to follow them into the desert. Then he described, again as a separate account immediately following this (Antiquities 20:8:6), the unnamed Egyptian who "led the multitude" to the Mount of Olives. http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/lukejosephus.html#errors