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Herod in history : Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan context / Kimberley Czajkowski, Benedikt Eckhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Czajkowski, Kimberley, 1987- author.
- Eckhardt, Benedikt, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- Herod I, King of Judea, 73 B.C.-4 B.C.
- Herod.
- Nicolaus, of Damascus.
- Nicolaus.
- Josephus, Flavius. De bello Judaico.
- Josephus, Flavius.
- Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Herod in History' takes a modern, source-critical approach to Josephus' 'Jewish War' and 'Jewish Antiquities' to show how it relied heavily on Nicolaus of Damascus lost 'Universal History', and reassesses Nicolaus's contribution to the historiography of Herod the Great's reign.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-193750-9
- 0-19-265983-9
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