A Companion to Josephus in His World (2016 Chapman, Rodgers), edited volume
A Companion to Josephus in His World (2016) is a book edited by Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers.
Abstract
"Considered the most important historian of Jewish antiquity, the works of Flavius Josephus offer unparalleled insights into the world of Late Second Temple Judaism, the dawn of Christianity, and the early years of the Roman Empire. A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings that probe deeply into aspects relating to the four extant works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Featuring contributions from more than two dozen renowned international scholars specializing in Josephus and related studies, readings introduce the writings of Josephus, put them into historical contexts, explore their transmission and reception, and highlight contemporary scholarly approaches to two millennia of Josephan studies. Following an examination of the four individual texts and their manuscript tradition and situating the writings of Josephus among contemporaneous Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian works, a wide variety of themes are explored--the archaeology of Galilee, military history, the Jerusalem Temple, women, Jewish rulers, and more. Further readings follow the transmission and reception of the Josephan corpus along its remarkable journey from Late Antiquity through to the Medieval, early Modern, and Modern periods. In the first single-volume scholarly guide to Josephus, A Companion to Josephus sheds important new light into the writings of an eyewitness to a pivotal point in world history."--Publisher description.
Editions
Published in Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.
Contents
- Part I : Writings
Josephus's Judean War / Steve Mason -- Many sources but a single author : Josephus's Jewish Antiquities -- Josephus's Autobiography (Life of Josephus) -- Against Apion / John Barclay
- Part II : Josephus's literary context
Josephus as a Roman historian / Steve Mason -- Josephus and Greek imperial literature / Eran Almagor -- Josephus and the Bible / Paul Spilsbury -- Josephus and Philo in Rome / Maren R. Niehoff -- Josephus and the New Testament / Helen K. Bond
- Part III : Themes
Josephus and the archaeology of Galilee / Zeev Weiss -- Josephus as a military historian / Jonathan P. Roth -- Josephus on women / Tal Ilan -- The Hasmoneans in Josephus / Eric S. Gruen -- Herod the Great in Josephus / Jan Willem van Henten -- The Herodian temple in Josephus / David A. Kaden -- Josephus and the Jewish sects / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Josephus and the priesthood / James S. McLaren -- Josephus and Halacha / David Nakman -- Josephus and rabbinic literature / Richard Kalmin
- Part IV : Transmission and reception history
The text of the Josephan corpus : principal Greek manuscripts, ancient Latin translations, and the indirect tradition / Tommaso Leoni -- The ancient Latin translations of Josephus / David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin -- The Testimonium Flavianum / Alice Whealey -- Josephus and patristic literature / Sabrina Inowlocki -- The Christian reception of Josephus in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Karen M. Kletter -- Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) / Saskia Dönitz -- The Slavonic version of Josephus 's Jewish War / Kate Leeming -- Josephus in Renaissance Italy / Silvia Castelli -- A note on English translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth / Gohei Hata -- From Masada to Jotapata : on Josephus in twentieth-century Hebrew scholarship / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Josephus Comicus in Monty Python's Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 / Honora Howell Chapman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
External links
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