The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation

presentation of the War did not yet exist when Josephus was drafting the
nucleus of the later biography, namely the administrative report, i.e. this
stems from the period before 75/79. On the other hand, the formulation of the
Autobiography, which did not occur until after the year 100, presupposes everywhere [the
existence of] the War, which is therefore cited so often in these passages.
Now this, combined with the remaining facts that have been established above,
provides the possibility to differentiate accurately the old and new [texts] from beginning to
end. When in Life 27, during the presentation of the causes of the Jewish War, reference is
made to the War, then it is indeed self-evident that an exposition of the causes of the Jewish-
Roman War do not belong within Josephus’ administrative report about his administration of
Galilee. Therefore the old text begins after section 27, i.e. just with the start of Josephus’
activity in Galilee. What lies before this point was not written until after the year 100.
However, the end point of the old administrative report surely lies before section 412; because
here the War is referred to once again on the occasion of Vespasian’s invasion. But let us
continue. We [55] remember that section 407 - 410 remained apart as the only passage naming
Justus and Philip respectively among those which otherwise were consistently to be removed
from their context. However these passages [concerning] Justus and Philip respectively are
precisely those elements by which the Life becomes the Life. Therefore they must of course be
eliminated entirely as late additions so far as they are located within the old administrative
report, whereas so far as they belong to the biographical parts they must be inextricably
incorporated with this because they did originate from the same time. But this is the case for
407 - 410, which absolutely cannot be separated from its continuation; therefore the end of the
old administrative report lies before section 407 — it began with the takeover of Galilee
by Josephus (28) and reached its end before the arrival of Vespasian. Many years
later this report was then extended into the self-portrayal directed against Justus in that the
work was provided with a beginning and an ending in sections 1 - 27 and 407 - 430 and
additions were inserted into the individual passages discussed above.
The examination of Josephus’ self-portrayal has consequently brought us
the important result that incorporated within it [survives the oldest text
stemming from Josephus: his administrative report about the administration in
Galilee. Before we continue, we must verify this result by a comparison of the parallel
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