In Ag. Ap. 1.41, after stressing that the Jewish holy books are rightly trusted because only prophets wrote them, Josephus remarks that Judaeans do not trust later writings in the same way. The reason he gives is usually translated as "the failure of the exact succession of the prophets." Whereas older scholarship played down this reason to insist on the absence of prophecy in post-biblical Judaism, the prevailing view today holds that Josephus meant only to qualify later prophecy, not to exclude it. This essay broaches the more basic question of what an alpha chi rho iota beta eta zeta delta iota alpha delta omicron chi eta means. Arguing that an exact diachronic succession of prophets makes little sense, it offers two proposals that better suit Josephus' argument. It further contends that Josephus is talking about the ancient Judaean past, the subject of this work, not about the work of later historians including himself. He distinguishes sharply between prophecy and historical inquiry.

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罗马犹太人的预言：约瑟夫斯是否曾报告“先知的确切继承”失败（针对Apion 1.41）？

在银 大约 1.41，约瑟夫斯在强调犹太圣书是正确的信任，因为只有先知才将它们写下来之后，约瑟夫斯评论说，犹太人不以同样的方式信任后来的著作。他给出的理由通常被翻译为“先知确切继承的失败”。较早的学者淡化了坚持圣经后犹太教中没有预言的理由，而今天的主流观点认为，约瑟夫斯只是在限定以后的预言，而不是排除它。本文提出了一个更基本的问题，即“阿尔法三角洲”是什么意思。论证先知的确切历时顺序是没有意义的，它提出了两个更适合约瑟夫斯论点的提议。它进一步辩称，约瑟夫斯在谈论的是古代犹太人的过去，这是这项工作的主题，而不是在谈论后来的历史学家包括他本人的工作。他在预言和历史探究之间做出了鲜明的区分。