this conflict has led historians to take a number of positions on political arrangements in the province. some have argued that josephus' greater knowledge of jewish affairs justifies favouring his account. m. aberbach believes that there was a division of power, but that tacitus reversed the governors' areas of authority and that cumanus actually governed the south and felix the north; this fits better with josephus, who describes cumanus as active in jerusalem and nearby. another suggestion is that part of the province was transferred to felix after disturbances under cumanus' rule.