ABSTRACT
It is possible that Josephus attributes hubris to H agar to counter the revulsion a non-Jew might feel at her banishm ent by A braham ’s family. So too he attempts to justify Hebrew resolve to kill the Amalekites. “Do not forget the hubris o f the Amalekites,” Moses tells the children o f Is rael. He tells them to make war with these enemies after they are es tablished in the Promised Land, and punish them for having attacked the people on the way from Egypt (Ant. 4:304).