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Josephus and Jewish history in Flavian Rome and beyond / edited by Joseph Sievers and Gaia Lembi.

Contributor(s): Sievers, Joseph | Lembi, Gaia
Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism: Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xiii, 454 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004141790 (alk. paper); 9789004141797 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Josephus, Flavius -- Congresses | Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- CongressesDDC classification: 933/.05 LOC classification: DS115.9.J6 | J64 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The formation of an historical canon of the Greco-Roman period : from the beginnings to Josephus / Doron Mendels -- La genese historique des Antiquites juives / Lucio Troiani -- Judean historiography in Rome : Josephus and history in Contra Apionem book 1 / John M. G. Barclay -- The impotence of Titus, or Josephus' Bellum Judaicum as an example of "pathetic" historiography / Fausto Parente -- Of audience and meaning : reading Josephus' Bullem Judaicum in the context of a Flavian audience / Steve Mason -- The provincial historian in Rome / Jonathan J. Price -- "By the waters of Babylon" : Josephus and Greek poetry / Honora Howell Chapman -- The Hellenistic biographical history of King Saul : Josephus, A.F. 6.45-378 and 1 Samuel 9:1 - 31:13 / Detlev Dormeyer -- Power and pity : the image of Herod in Josephus' Bellum Judaicum / Tamar Landau -- Commonplaces in Herod's commander speech in Josephus' AF. 15.127 - 146 / Jan Willem van Henten -- Reading the Bible in Rome : Josephus and the constraints of empire / Paul Spilsbury -- Josephus' use of prayers : between narrative and theology / Tessel Jonquiere -- Some observations on Josephus' description of the Essenian morning prayer / Niclas Forster -- Wer dient wem? die darstellung des Flavischen triumphzuges auf dem Titusbogen und bei Josephus (B.J. 7.123 - 162) / Barbara Eberhardt -- Josephus on Titus : the vanquished writing about the Victor / James S. McLaren -- Josephus and the philosophers of Rome : does Contra Apionem mirror Domitian's crushing of the "stoic opposition"? / Gunnar Haaland -- Alexandrien als drehscheibe zwischen Jeruselam und Rom : die bedeutung der stadt im werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski -- Jews, Romans, and Christians : from the Bellum Judaicum to the Antiquitates / Giorgio Jossa -- The divorces of the Herodian princesses : Jewish law, Roman law or palace law? / Bernard S. Jackson -- The Latin translation of Josephus' Antiquitates / Gaia Lembi -- Translating book 1 of Josephus' Bellum Judaicum : some critical observations / Anthony J. Forte -- Josephus und das alphabet der Romer : uberlegungen zur schreibung griechischer eigennamen in Lateinischer schrift / Folker Siegert -- Concluding remarks / Folker Siegert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The formation of an historical canon of the Greco-Roman period : from the beginnings to Josephus / Doron Mendels -- La genese historique des Antiquites juives / Lucio Troiani -- Judean historiography in Rome : Josephus and history in Contra Apionem book 1 / John M. G. Barclay -- The impotence of Titus, or Josephus' Bellum Judaicum as an example of "pathetic" historiography / Fausto Parente -- Of audience and meaning : reading Josephus' Bullem Judaicum in the context of a Flavian audience / Steve Mason -- The provincial historian in Rome / Jonathan J. Price -- "By the waters of Babylon" : Josephus and Greek poetry / Honora Howell Chapman -- The Hellenistic biographical history of King Saul : Josephus, A.F. 6.45-378 and 1 Samuel 9:1 - 31:13 / Detlev Dormeyer -- Power and pity : the image of Herod in Josephus' Bellum Judaicum / Tamar Landau -- Commonplaces in Herod's commander speech in Josephus' AF. 15.127 - 146 / Jan Willem van Henten -- Reading the Bible in Rome : Josephus and the constraints of empire / Paul Spilsbury -- Josephus' use of prayers : between narrative and theology / Tessel Jonquiere -- Some observations on Josephus' description of the Essenian morning prayer / Niclas Forster -- Wer dient wem? die darstellung des Flavischen triumphzuges auf dem Titusbogen und bei Josephus (B.J. 7.123 - 162) / Barbara Eberhardt -- Josephus on Titus : the vanquished writing about the Victor / James S. McLaren -- Josephus and the philosophers of Rome : does Contra Apionem mirror Domitian's crushing of the "stoic opposition"? / Gunnar Haaland -- Alexandrien als drehscheibe zwischen Jeruselam und Rom : die bedeutung der stadt im werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski -- Jews, Romans, and Christians : from the Bellum Judaicum to the Antiquitates / Giorgio Jossa -- The divorces of the Herodian princesses : Jewish law, Roman law or palace law? / Bernard S. Jackson -- The Latin translation of Josephus' Antiquitates / Gaia Lembi -- Translating book 1 of Josephus' Bellum Judaicum : some critical observations / Anthony J. Forte -- Josephus und das alphabet der Romer : uberlegungen zur schreibung griechischer eigennamen in Lateinischer schrift / Folker Siegert -- Concluding remarks / Folker Siegert.

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