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).