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A Companion to Josephus

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World 1. Aufl.

von: Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika Rodgers
139,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	27.10.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781118325179
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	488

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A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. <ul> <li>Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus</li> <li>Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including reception history</li> <li>Features contributions from 29 eminent scholars in the field from four continents</li> <li>Reveals important insights into the Jewish and Roman worlds at the moment when Christianity was gaining ground as a movement</li> </ul> Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors viii List of Illustrations xii Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers Part I Writings 11 1 Josephus’s Judean War 13 Steve Mason 2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities 36 Daniel R. Schwartz 3 Josephus’s Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59 Steve Mason 4 Against Apion 75 John Barclay Part II Josephus’s Literary Context 87 5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89 Steve Mason 6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108 Eran Almagor 7 Josephus and the Bible 123 Paul Spilsbury 8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135 Maren R. Niehoff 9 Josephus and the New Testament 147 Helen K. Bond Part III Themes 159 10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161 Zeev Weiss 11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199 Jonathan P. Roth 12 Josephus on Women 210 Tal Ilan 13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222 Erich S. Gruen 14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235 Jan Willem van Henten 15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247 David A. Kaden 16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261 Albert I. Baumgarten 17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273 James S. McLaren 18 Josephus and Halacha 282 David Nakman 19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293 Richard Kalmin Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305 20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307 Tommaso Leoni 21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322 David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin 22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345 Alice Whealey 23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356 Sabrina Inowlocki 24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368 Karen M. Kletter 25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382 Saskia Dönitz 26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus’s Jewish War 390 Kate Leeming 27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402 Silvia Castelli 28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414 Gohei Hata 29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth?]Century Hebrew Scholarship 419 Daniel R. Schwartz 30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 440 Honora Howell Chapman Index 455

Autorenportrait

Honora Howell Chapman is Professor of Classics and Humanities at California State University, Fresno. She is a former co-chair of the Josephus Seminar/Group of the Society of Biblical Literature and has published articles and book chapters on literary aspects of Josephus’s writings. Zuleika Rodgers is Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Director of the Herzog Centre at Trinity College, University of Dublin. She was President of the British Association for Jewish Studies (2013–2014).

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Considered the most important historian of Jewish antiquity, the works of Flavius Josephus offer unparalleled insights into the world of Late Second Temple Judaism, the dawn of Christianity, and the early years of the Roman Empire. A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings that probe deeply into aspects relating to the four extant works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Featuring contributions from more than two dozen renowned international scholars specializing in Josephus and related studies, readings introduce the writings of Josephus, put them into historical contexts, explore their transmission and reception, and highlight contemporary scholarly approaches to two millennia of Josephan studies. Following an examination of the four individual texts and their manuscript tradition and situating the writings of Josephus among contemporaneous Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian works, a wide variety of themes are explored—the archaeology of Galilee, military history, the Jerusalem Temple, women, Jewish rulers, and more. Further readings follow the transmission and reception of the Josephan corpus along its remarkable journey from Late Antiquity through to the Medieval, early Modern, and Modern periods. In the first single-volume scholarly guide to Josephus, A Companion to Josephus sheds important new light into the writings of an eyewitness to a pivotal point in world history.