Flavius Josephus : interpretation and history / edited by Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern, and Menahem Mor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pastor, Jack, 1947-

Stern, Pnina.

Mor, Menahem.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Josephus, Flavius--Congresses.

Josephus, Flavius.

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D--Historiography--Congresses.

Jews.

History.

Historiography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Contents:

The historical chronology of the Hasmonean period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: separating fact from fiction / Kenneth Atkinson

Socio-economic hierarchy and its economic foundations in first century Galilee: the evidence from Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam

Le systeme sacrificiel de Flavius Josephe au Livre III des Antiquites Juives (Ant. 3.224-236) / Christophe Batsch

Between fact and fiction: Josephus' account of the destruction of the Temple / Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev

Flavius Josephus in Rome / John Curran

Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus / Niclas Forster

Reconstructing Exodus tradition: Moses in the second book of Josephus' Antiquities / Giovanni Frulla

Unity and chronology in the Jewish Antiquities / Dov Gera

Polybius and Josephus on Rome / Erich S. Gruen

Convenient fiction or causal factor?: the questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2 / Gunnar Haaland

Where is the temple site of Onias IV in Egypt? / Gohei Hata

Constructing Herod as a tyrant: assessing Josephus' parallel passages / Jan Willem van Henten

Josephus at Jotapata: why Josephus wrote what he wrote / Tessel M. Jonquiere

Josephus on Herod's spring from the shadows of the Parthian invasion / Aryeh Kasher

Josephus on poisoning and magic cures or, on the meaning of Pharmakon / Samuel S. Kottek

Josephus and discrepant sources / Etienne Nodet

Josephus, the Temple, and the Jewish War / Eyal Regev

The purposes and functions of the synagogue in late Second Temple period Judaea: evidence from Josephus and archaeological investigation / Samuel Rocca

Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski

Josephus, Catullus, divine providence, and the date of the Judean War / Daniel R. Schwartz

Josephus the stage manager at the service of Josephus the dramatist: Masada as test case / Yuval Shahar

Josephus and Justus: The place of Chapter 65 (336-367) in Life, the autobiography of Flavius Josephus / Pnina Stern

A Jewish Priest in Rome / Michael Tuval

To be or not to be: an historical interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus' Antiquities / Jozsef Zsengeller.

Notes:

"This volume was born of an international conference entitled 'Making history: Josephus and historical method' held at the University of Haifa from 2-6 July, 2006"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004191266

9004191267

OCLC:

688644564