Making History: Josephus And Historical Method

✍ Scribed by Zuleika Rodgers

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 486
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. The contributions in this volume, which were presented at an international colloquium entitled ''Josephus: Interpretation and History'' held in Dublin in 2004, are united, not by a single view of Josephus, but by the question of historical method, both ancient and modern. These essays take up aspects of a problem basic to all researchers who would use Josephus for historical purposes, namely: What is the relationship between narratives and history? Organized thematically, the volume reflects a critical engagement with the texts of Josephus, other literary texts, case studies of particular events, and material remains.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 11
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
PART ONE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS: ANCIENT AND MODERN......Page 38
ON REFERRING TO SOMETHING, MEANING SOMETHING, AND TRUTH: A TERMINOLOGICAL PROPOSAL --- Folker Siegert......Page 40
DELVING INTO THE DARK SIDE: JOSEPHUS’ FORESIGHT AS HINDSIGHT --- James S. McLaren......Page 64
JOSEPHUS’ PERSONALITY AND THE CREDIBILITY OF HIS NARRATIVE --- Uriel Rappaport......Page 83
MASADA IN THE 1ST AND 21ST CENTURIES --- Honora Howell Chapman......Page 97
JOSEPHUS’ ATTEMPT TO REORGANIZE JUDAISM FROM ROME --- Etienne Nodet......Page 118
PART TWO JOSEPHUS’ USE OF SOURCES......Page 138
COMPOSITION AND SOURCES IN ANTIQUITIES 18: THE CASE OF PONTIUS PILATE --- Daniel R. Schwartz......Page 140
JOSEPHUS AND STRABO: THE REASONS FOR A CHOICE --- Alessandro Galimberti......Page 162
GESCHICHTSFORSCHUNG ALS APOLOGIE: JOSEPHUS UND DIE NICHT-GRIECHISCHEN HISTORIKER IN CONTRA APIONEM --- Niclas Förster......Page 183
PART THREE JOSEPHUS AS A SOURCE......Page 208
NOBLE DEATH IN JOSEPHUS: JUST RHETORIC? --- Jan Willem van Henten......Page 210
ESSENES AND LURKING SPARTANS IN JOSEPHUS’ JUDEAN WAR: FROM STORY TO HISTORY --- Steve Mason......Page 234
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PHILOSOPHY MAKE? THE THREE SCHOOLS AS A RHETORICAL DEVICEIN JOSEPHUS --- Gunnar Haaland......Page 277
JOSEPHUS AND ANTIPAS: A CASE STUDY OF JOSEPHUS’ NARRATIVES ON HEROD ANTIPAS --- Morten Hørning Jensen......Page 304
JOSEPHUS AND THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON ON HEROD’S MESSIANIC ASPIRATIONS: AN INTERPRETATION --- Samuel Rocca......Page 328
JOSEPHUS AS A SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY: PROBLEMS AND APPROACHES --- Jack Pastor......Page 349
PART FOUR JOSEPHUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY......Page 362
NOBLE DEATHS AT GAMLA AND MASADA? A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF JOSEPHUS’ ACCOUNTS OF JEWISH RESISTANCE IN LIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES --- Kenneth Atkinson......Page 364
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUMINATION OF JOSEPHUS’ NARRATIVE OF THE BATTLES AT YODEFAT AND GAMLA --- Mordechai Aviam......Page 387
JOSEPHUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE CITIES OF THE GALILEE --- Zeev Weiss......Page 400
APPENDIX A SPECIAL LECTURE TO MARK THE HOSTING OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPHUS COLLOQUIUM IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN......Page 430
ROBERT TRAILL: THE FIRST IRISH CRITIC OF WILLIAM WHISTON’S TRANSLATION OF JOSEPHUS (A SPECIAL LECTURE TO MARK THE HOSTING OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPHUS COLLOQUIUM IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) --- Gohei Hata......Page 432
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES......Page 452
GENERAL INDEX......Page 473
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 480

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Историография, источниковедение и методы исторических исследований;