Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History

✍ Scribed by Pastor, Jack(Editor);Stern, Pnina;Mor, Menahem

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 452
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism 146
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 9
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
The Historical Chronology of the Hasmonean Period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: Separating Fact from Fiction......Page 21
Socio-economic Hierarchy and its Economic Foundations in First Century Galilee: The Evidence from Yodefat and Gamla......Page 43
Le Système Sacrificiel de Flavius Josèphe au Livre III des Antiquitès Juives (Ant. 3.224–236)......Page 53
Between Fact and Fiction: Josephus’ Account of the Destruction of the Temple......Page 67
Flavius Josephus in Rome......Page 79
Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus......Page 101
Reconstructing Exodus Tradition: Moses in the Second Book of Josephus’ Antiquities......Page 125
Unity and Chronology in the Jewish Antiquities......Page 139
Polybius and Josephus on Rome......Page 163
Convenient Fiction or Causal Factor? The Questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2......Page 177
Where is the Temple Site of Onias IV in Egypt?......Page 191
Constructing Herod as a Tyrant: Assessing Josephus’ Parallel Passages......Page 207
Josephus at Jotapata: Why Josephus Wrote What He Wrote......Page 231
Josephus on Herod’s Spring from the Shadows of the Parthian Invasion......Page 241
Josephus on Poisoning and Magic Cures or, On the Meaning of Pharmakon......Page 261
Josephus and Discrepant Sources......Page 273
Josephus, the Τemple, and the Jewish War......Page 293
The Purposes and Functions of the Synagogue in Late Second Temple Period Judaea: Evidence from Josephus and Archaeological Investigation......Page 309
Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus......Page 329
Josephus, Catullus, Divine Providence, and the Date of the Judean War......Page 345
Josephus the Stage Manager at the Service of Josephus the Dramatist: Masada as Test Case......Page 367
Josephus and Justus: The Place of Chapter 65 (336–367) in Life, the Autobiography of Flavius Josephus......Page 395
A Jewish Priest in Rome......Page 411
“To be or not to be . . .” An Historical Interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus’ Antiquities......Page 427
General Index......Page 445