MOSES' ETHIOPIAN CAMPAIGN BY DONNA RUNNALLS Montreal Despite the fact that Josephus, at the beginning of the Antiquities, declared that in his retelling of the biblical story he would neither add nor omit anything (AJ I, 17) he did, in fact, both add a con- siderable number of Haggadic stories and embellishments natural to his own interests, and omit a number of biblical incidents'). It is the contention of this writer that none of these suggestions is really satisfactory and that the inclusion of this

This story has been a source of considerable interest, and several reasons for its inclusion have been suggested: it is to provide an explanation of Numbers 12, 1 which refers to Moses' 'Cushite wife'2), Josephus told the story to point out the Egyptian patriotism of Moses3) because of the contemporary anti-Semitic literature which portrayed Moses as a renegade Egyptian priests4) or he knew that his readers would enjoy a good story about strange places and marvelous creatures5). One of the additions, which is the most extensive (five pages of Greek text in NiESE's edition) and the most divergent from the biblical account, is a curious description of the activity of Moses in Ethiopia.

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