Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (2007 Rodgers), edited volume

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Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (2007) is a collection of essays edited by Zuleika Rodgers.

Abstract

Proceedings of the International Josephus Colloquium, Dublin [Ireland]: Trinity College, September 2004.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2007 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 110).

Table of contents

  • On referring to something, meaning something, and truth : a terminological proposal / Folker Siegert
  • Delving into the dark side: Josephus' foresight as hindsight / James S. McLaren
  • Josephus' personality and the credibility of his narrative / Uriel Rappaport
  • Masada in the 1st and 21st centuries / Honora Howell Chapman
  • Josephus' attempt to reorganize Judaism from Rome / Etienne Nodet
  • Composition and sources in Antiquities 18: the case of Pontius Pilate / Daniel R. Schwartz
  • Josephus and Strabo: The reasons for a choice / Alessandro Galimberti
  • Geschichtsforschung als Apologie: Josephus und die nichtgriechischen Historiker in Contra Apionem / Niclas Förster
  • Noble death in Josephus: just rhetoric? / Jan Willem van Henten
  • Essenes and lurking Spartans in Josephus' Judean war : from story to history / Steve Mason
  • What difference does philosophy make?: The three schools as a rhetorical device in Josephus / Gunnar Haaland
  • Josephus and Antipas: a case study of Josephus' narratives on Herod Antipas / Morten Hørning Jensen
  • Josephus and the Psalms of Solomon on Herod's messianic aspirations: An interpretation / Samuel Rocca
  • Josephus as a source for economic history : problems and approaches / Jack Pastor
  • Noble deaths at Gamla and Masada?: A critical assessment of Josephus' accounts of Jewish resistance in light of archaeological discoveries / Kenneth Atkinson
  • The archaeological illumination of Josephus' narrative of the battles at Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam
  • Josephus and archaeology on the cities of the Galilee / Zeev Weiss
  • Robert Traill: the first Irish critic of William Whiston's translation of Josephus / Gohei Hata

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