AN OLD ARMENIAN VERSION OF JOSEPHUS

Josephus' Portrait of Jeroboam

A number of studies have been published of Josephus' portraits of biblical heroes, wherein we see that Josephus systematically aggrandizes their qualities of good birth, handsomeness, and the cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, and piety? But how does he depict biblical rogues? Three Israelite kings whose wickedness is emphasized in the biblical record-namely, Jeroboam I, ...

Josephus' Portrait of Asa

Whereas the rabbinic tradition attacks King Asa of Judah for trusting in himself rather than in G-d and, in particular, for drafting the sages, Josephus, the apologist, omits such details and, indeed, whitewashes Asa completely. He is praised particularly, in language reminiscent of Josephus' portraits of Saul and David, as well as of Thucydides' Pericles, for putting his nation in order. In pa...

Lipschitz 2 : a New Version of an Old Principle

Conditional Diagnosability of Complete Josephus Cubes

The growing size of the multiprocessor system increases its vulnerability to component failures. The fault diagnosis is the process of identifying faulty processors in a system through self-testing, and the diagnosability is an important parameter to measure the reliability of an interconnection network. As a new measure of fault tolerance, conditional diagnosability can better evaluate the rea...

The Josephus Problem

Lorenz Halbeisen, ETH Z urich Norbert Hungerb uhler, University of Freiburg (Germany) Abstract We give explicit non-recursive formulas to compute the Josephus-numbers j(n; 2; i) and j(n; 3; i) and explicit upper and lower bounds for j(n; k; i) (where k 4) which di er by 2k 2 (for k = 4 the bounds are even better). Furthermore we present a new fast algorithm to calculate j(n; k; i) which is ba...