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Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004693297 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 684
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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 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.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004693297 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 684
Book Description
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 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.
Author: Publisher: Brill ISBN: 9789004693289 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume marks the state-of-the-art concerning research on Flavius Josephus, Sefer Yosippon, and reception history of both. The essays contained herein draw together and build upon past research to establish a new foundation for future work on these important texts.
Author: Karen M. Kletter Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004684271 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 295
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The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer’s text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the complex relationship between Josephus’ legacy and his readers who sought to make use of that legacy across the period of 500 to 1300. Contributors include: Carson Bay, Susan Edgington, Anthony Ellis, Paul C. Hilliard, Karen M. Kletter, Justin Lake, Richard M. Pollard, Graeme Ward, and Julian Yolles.
Author: Andrea Schatz Publisher: ISBN: 9789004393080 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture offers pioneering studies of the intense and varied reception of the historian's work in scholarship, religious and political debates, and in literary texts, from seventeenth-century Amsterdam to the "trials" of Josephus in the twentieth century.
Author: Viktor Kókai-Nagy Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311114786X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 280
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Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict. But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a central role in his second book. A broader theme could hardly have been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022 at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada), Jiří Hoblík (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues: Tibor Grüll, Ádám Vér, József Zsengellér, István Karasszon, and Viktor Kókai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay (Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA). Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.
Author: Martin Goodman Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691137390 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 200
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An essential introduction to Josephus’s momentous war narrative The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its composition in Greek for a Roman readership to the myriad ways it touched the lives of Jews and Christians over the span of two millennia. The scion of a priestly Jewish family, Josephus became a rebel general at the start of the war. Captured by the enemy general Vespasian, Josephus predicted correctly that Vespasian would be the future emperor of Rome and thus witnessed the final stages of the siege of Jerusalem from the safety of the Roman camp and wrote his history of these cataclysmic events from a comfortable exile in Rome. His history enjoyed enormous popularity among Christians, who saw it as a testimony to the world that gave rise to their faith and a record of the suffering of the Jews due to their rejection of Christ. Jews were hardly aware of the book until the Renaissance. In the nineteenth century, Josephus's history became an important source for recovering Jewish history, yet Jewish enthusiasm for his stories of heroism—such as the doomed defense of Masada—has been tempered by suspicion of a writer who betrayed his own people. Goodman provides a concise biography of one of the greatest war narratives ever written, explaining why Josephus's book continues to hold such fascination today.
Author: Joseph Sievers Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047415523 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 470
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This volume focuses on the interplay between Josephus’ Judean identity and his Roman context. After treating historiographical and literary issues, it addresses Josephus’ presentation of Judaism and of historical “facts”. A final section deals with the transmission of his works.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004680012 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the ‘superspreader’ of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in Delphi? What agents helped diffuse a new festival culture in the eastern parts of the Roman empire? How did a context of status competition between scholars and poets at the Ptolemaic court help deify a lock of hair? Examples from different societal domains illuminate different types of agency in historical innovation.
Author: Joseph Gorion Publisher: ISBN: 9781078210577 Category : Languages : en Pages : 271
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This is an English translation of a Jewish history on the nation of Israel, written most likely during the Medieval era in Hebrew. In 1558, Peter Morwyn translated the Hebrew work into an abbreviated English version. From this translation, the English-speaking world has learned of the Josippon and the history/legends it records. This new, 2019 edition is meant for a modern audience, with many of the anachronistic spellings and sentence structures being replaced with language that a modern reader can more easily understand.The book itself covers the history of Israel and the Jewish people from the death of Alexander the Great, to the fall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, by the hand of Titus Vespasianus.
Author: Wally V. Cirafesi Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004462945 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 357
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In John within Judaism Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of Jewish ethnic identity in Greco-Roman antiquity.
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