Research Catalog

Title

Flavius Josephus : interpretation and history / edited by Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern, and Menahem Mor.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pastor, Jack, 1947-
• Stern, Pnina.
• Mor, Menahem.

Description

x, 437 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146

Uniform Title

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146.

Subjects

• Josephus, Flavius > Congresses
• Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D > Historiography > Congresses

Note

• "This volume was born of an international conference entitled 'Making history: Josephus and historical method' held at the University of Haifa from 2-6 July, 2006"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The historical chronology of the Hasmonean period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: separating fact from fiction / Kenneth Atkinson -- Socio-economic hierarchy and its economic foundations in first century Galilee: the evidence from Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam -- Le systeme sacrificiel de Flavius Josephe au Livre III des Antiquites Juives (Ant. 3.224-236) / Christophe Batsch -- Between fact and fiction: Josephus' account of the destruction of the Temple / Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev -- Flavius Josephus in Rome / John Curran -- Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus / Niclas Forster -- Reconstructing Exodus tradition: Moses in the second book of Josephus' Antiquities / Giovanni Frulla -- Unity and chronology in the Jewish Antiquities / Dov Gera -- Polybius and Josephus on Rome / Erich S. Gruen -- Convenient fiction or causal factor?: the questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2 / Gunnar Haaland -- Where is the temple site of Onias IV in Egypt? / Gohei Hata -- Constructing Herod as a tyrant: assessing Josephus' parallel passages / Jan Willem van Henten -- Josephus at Jotapata: why Josephus wrote what he wrote / Tessel M. Jonquiere -- Josephus on Herod's spring from the shadows of the Parthian invasion / Aryeh Kasher -- Josephus on poisoning and magic cures or, on the meaning of Pharmakon / Samuel S. Kottek -- Josephus and discrepant sources / Etienne Nodet -- Josephus, the Temple, and the Jewish War / Eyal Regev -- The purposes and functions of the synagogue in late Second Temple period Judaea: evidence from Josephus and archaeological investigation / Samuel Rocca -- Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski -- Josephus, Catullus, divine providence, and the date of the Judean War / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Josephus the stage manager at the service of Josephus the dramatist: Masada as test case / Yuval Shahar -- Josephus and Justus: The place of Chapter 65 (336-367) in Life, the autobiography of Flavius Josephus / Pnina Stern -- A Jewish Priest in Rome / Michael Tuval -- To be or not to be: an historical interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus' Antiquities / Jozsef Zsengeller.

Call Number

*PXC 11-597

ISBN

• 9789004191266 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004191267 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010049093

OCLC

688644564

Title

Flavius Josephus : interpretation and history / edited by Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern, and Menahem Mor.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pastor, Jack, 1947-

Stern, Pnina.

Mor, Menahem.

Research Call Number

*PXC 11-597