Author: Flavius JosephusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus
Author: Flavius JosephusThe Works of Flavius Josephus
Author: Flavius JosephusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Works of Flavius Josephus ...
Author: Flavius JosephusThe Life of Flavius Josephus
Author: Flavius JosephusPublisher: Aeterna Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
THE family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family. Now, I am not only sprung from a sacerdotal family in general, but from the first of the twenty-four courses; and as among us there is not only a considerable difference between one family of each course and another, I am of the chief family of that first course also; nay, further, by my mother I am of the royal blood; for the children of Asamoneus, from whom that family was derived, had both the office of the high priesthood, and the dignity of a king, for a long time together. I will accordingly set down my progenitors in order. Aeterna Press
A Jew Among Romans
Author: Frederic RaphaelPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307378160
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"An audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world"--Dust jacket flap.
The Works
Author: Flavius JosephusJosephus
Author: JosephusPublisher:
ISBN: 9787937263128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Josephus, the Essential Works
Author: Flavius JosephusPublisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 9780825496226
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
(Updated, full-color edition) Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition of the award-winning translation and condensation. Now with color photographs, charts, and maps.
The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus
Author: Flavius JosephusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity
Author: F. B. A. AsieduPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978701330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Flavius Josephus, the priest from Jerusalem who was affiliated with the Pharisees, is our most important source for Jewish life in the first century. His notice about the death of James the brother of Jesus suggests that Josephus knew about the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem and in Judaea. In Rome, where he lived for the remainder of his life after the Jewish War, a group of Christians appear to have flourished, if 1 Clement is any indication. Josephus, however, says extremely little about the Christians in Judaea and nothing about those in Rome. He also does not reference Paul the apostle, a former Pharisee, who was a contemporary of Josephus’s father in Jerusalem, even though, according to Acts, Paul and his activities were known to two successive Roman governors (procurators) of Judaea, Marcus Antonius Felix and Porcius Festus, and to King Herod Agrippa II and his sisters Berenice and Drusilla. The knowledge of the Herodians, in particular, puts Josephus’s silence about Paul in an interesting light, suggesting that it may have been deliberate. In addition, Josephus’s writings bear very little witness to other contemporaries in Rome, so much so that if we were dependent on Josephus alone we might conclude that many of those historical characters either did not exist or had little or no impact in the first century. Asiedu comments on the state of life in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian and how both Josephus and the Christians who produced 1 Clement coped with the regime as other contemporaries, among whom he considers Martial, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and others, did. He argues that most of Josephus’s contemporaries practiced different kinds of silences in bearing witness to the world around them. Consequently, the absence of references to Jews or Christians in Roman writers of the last three decades of the first century, including Josephus, should not be taken as proof of their non-existence in Flavian Rome.