A companion to Josephus in his world 1st Edition by Chapman Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika Rodgers ISBN 1444335332 978-1444335330

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ISBN 10: 1444335332 

ISBN 13: 978-1444335330

Author: Chapman Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika Rodgers

 A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.

Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus

Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including reception history

Features contributions from 29 eminent scholars in the field from four continents

Reveals important insights into the Jewish and Roman worlds at the moment when Christianity was gaining ground as a movement

Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association

Table of contents: 

PART I – Writings

1. Josephus’s Judean War
2. Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities
3. Josephus’s Autobiography (Life of Josephus)
4. Against Apion

PART II – Josephus’s Literary Context

5. Josephus as a Roman Historian
6. Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature
7. Josephus and the Bible
8. Josephus and Philo in Rome
9. Josephus and the New Testament

PART III – Themes

10. Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee
11. Josephus as a Military Historian
12. Josephus on Women
13. The Hasmoneans in Josephus
14. Herod the Great in Josephus
15. The Herodian Temple in Josephus
16. Josephus and the Jewish Sects
17. Josephus and the Priesthood
18. Josephus and Halacha
19. Josephus and Rabbinic Literature

PART IV – Transmission and Reception History

20. The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition
21. The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus
22. The Testimonium Flavianum
23. Josephus and Patristic Literature
24. The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
25. Sefer Yosippon (Josippon)
26. The Slavonic Version of Josephus’s Judean War
27. Josephus in Renaissance Italy
28. A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth
29. From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Scholarship
30. Josephus Comicus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian and History of the World, Part I

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