Louis Feldman has argued that Josephus’ portrayal of Hezekiah in the Jewish Antiquities is ambivalent. On the one hand, Josephus calls Hezekiah good, just, and pious (9.260). However, he also attributes Hezekiah’s failure to personally meet with Sennacherib’s envoys to the former’s
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Louis Feldman has argued that Josephus’ portrayal of Hezekiah in the Jewish Antiquities is ambivalent. On the one hand, Josephus calls Hezekiah good, just, and pious (9.260). However, he also attributes Hezekiah’s failure to personally meet with Sennacherib’s envoys to the former’s
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