From Josephus to Yosippon and beyond : text-re-interpretations-afterlives / edited by Carson Bay, Michael Avioz, and Jan Willem van Henten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bay, Carson, 1986- author.

Avioz, Michael, 1967- author.

Henten, Jan Willem van, 1955- author.

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 215

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

Rome--History--Flavians, 69-96.

Rome.

Josippon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Josippon.

Josephus, Flavius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (684 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last several decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and beyond.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond

The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship

Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten

Part 1: Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features

2 Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning

Steve Mason

3 Josephus and the Bible

Erich S. Gruen

4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity

Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae

David R. Edwards

5 Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus’ Cultic Laws and Constitution

Silvia Castelli

6 Free Speech and Moses’ Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus’ Works

Ursula Westwood

Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism

7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon

Saskia Dönitz

8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon

David B. Levenson

Part 3: Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations

9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon’s ‘Aeneid’ and Adso’s Apocalypse

Ruth Nisse

10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15

Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs

Jan Willem van Henten

11 Killing Matthias: De Excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא)

Carson Bay

12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius

Steven Bowman

13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians

Kenneth Atkinson

14 Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration

Daniel Stein Kokin

Part 4: Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy

15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions

Martin Goodman

16 Josephus on the School Bench

Meir Ben Shahar

17 ‘Josephus Proudly Presents’: Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries)

Katharina Heyden

18 Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan’s Masada

Yael S. Feldman

19 Schalit’s Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment

Michael Avioz

20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon

Yonatan Binyam

21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe

Nadia Zeldes

22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-Histories in the Early Modern Yosippon

Andrea Schatz

Index of Sources

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004693296

9004693297

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004693296 DOI