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The Historical Method of Flavius Josephus (1986) is a book by Pere Villalba y Varneda.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in Leiden [Netherlands]: E. J. Brill, 1986 (ISBN: 90-04-07616-6).
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Table of contents
- Presentació
- Preface
- Status quaestionis
- Abbreviations
I. THE THEORY OF HISTORICAL CAUSE
- Precedents
- A. The concept of historical cause in Flavius Josephus
- B. The aetiological question on the human plane
- 1. The fall of Jerusalem
- 2. The wars of the people of Israel
- 3. The historical subject as cause
- C. The aetiological question on the transcendent plane
- 1. Diversity of the transcendent concept in Flavius Josephus
- 2. Events mysterious in nature
- 3. Biblical God and historical event
II. ARS NARRANDI
- Precedents
- A. Historiographic elements
- 1. Historical personalities
- 2. The speeches
- Precedents
- a. Direct speeches in the "Bellum Judaicum"
- b. Direct speeches in the "Antiquitates Judaicae"
- c. Indirect speeches in the "Bellum Judaicum"
- d. Indirect speeches in the "Antiquitates Judaicae"
- e. Mixed styles
- 3. Chronology
- 4. Geography
- 5. The Institutions
- 6. Archaeology
- 7. Wars
- B. Historical narrative
- 1. The narrative thread
- 2. Dinosis
- 3. Ecphrasis
- 4. Historical anticipation
- C. The personal elements in Flavius Josephus
- 1. Paradox and reason
- 2. Ethical and philosophical reflections
- 3. Eulogy and censure
- 4. Proems and epilogues
- Precedents
- a. The proems
- b. The epilogues
- 5. Historiographic pointers
- 6. Novelistic elements
- 7. History and drama
III. CONCLUSIONS: THE METHODOLOGY OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
- Precedents
- A. Pragmatic history
- B. Historiographic explanation
- C. Apodictic history
- D. Use of sources
- E. Histriographic attitude and impartiality
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Greek Words