Category:Josephus Studies--Fiction

Virtually all works of fiction on Second Temple Judaism rely, directly or indirectly, on Josephus' Works; see Second Temple Studies (Fiction). Josephus, however, is not only, as a historian, the major source of information about the period, but he is also a major protagonist of the Jewish War, as the commander-in-chief of the Jewish forces in Galilee and then a personal friend of the Roman Imperial family. Several novels include Josephus as one of their own characters, some focus on his personal experience. The most important work is the trilogy written in the 1930s and 1940s by Feuchtwanger, a German Jew who had left Germany after Hitler's rise to power and lived as a refugee in France and the United States. 'Fuechtwanger was a staunch defender if josephus' reputation. In his view he was a tragic and heroic figure, divided between his desisre to be a itizen of the world and the love for his own people.