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Martin Kahler, The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical Christ, tr. C.E. Braaten (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1964), p. 80, note 11.

Gaius Fannius wrote about the deaths of famous men executed under Nero (Pliny, Letters 5.5.1–3), and Titinius Capito wrote Exitus illustrium virorum (Departure of Famous Men), which focused on death scenes. The same fashion was followed by Tacitus (see his narratives of the final days of Seneca [Annals 16.21–35], and of Thrasea and Soramus [Annals 16.21–35]).

According to an ancient Greek conception, a person’s life could be evaluated only when completed by death; see Herodotus 1.30–32.

Schmidt, Der Rahmen der Geschiche Jesu (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1969 [1919]).

Louis H. Feldman, “Josephus as an Apologist of the Greco-Roman World: His Portrait of Solomon,” in Aspects of Religious Propaganda in Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. E. Schussler Fiorenza (Notre Dame: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1976), pp. 68–98; Feldman, “Josephus’ Portrait of Saul,” Hebrew Union College Annual 53 (1982), pp. 45–99.

See Raymond Brown, “Jesus and Elijah,” Perspective 12 (1971), pp. 85–104.

Klaus Baltzer, Die Biographie der Propheten (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1975).

Burke O. Long, 1 Kings with an Introduction to Historical Literature, The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 9 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1984), p. 245.

F. Gerald Downing, “A bas les aristos. The Relevance of Higher Literature for the Understanding of the Earliest Christian Writings,” Novum Testamentum 30 (1988), pp. 212–230, who argues that “There is no sign of a culture-gap between the highly literate aristocracy and the masses.”