seems to depend squarely on such information as Josephus presents. In other cases—the complex of events associated with the census and ensuing rebel movements—Luke regularly differs from Josephus in specifics. But his disagreements can be readily understood as conflations of Josephus’s narrative, resulting from imperfect memory or deliberate schematization. Since the conflated elements lie together only in the narrative that Josephus constructed, as far as we know, Luke’s product is much more difficult