From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond : Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives /

From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond : Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives /

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE), spent the last several decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christi...

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Other Authors: Avioz, Michael (Editor), Bay, Carson (Editor), Henten, Jan Willem van (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 215

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Ancient Judaism.
Biblical Studies.
Classical Studies.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond
  •  The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship
  •   Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten
  • Part 1: Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features
  • 2 Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning
  •   Steve Mason
  • 3 Josephus and the Bible
  •   Erich S. Gruen
  • 4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity
  •  Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae
  •   David R. Edwards
  • 5 Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus' Cultic Laws and Constitution
  •   Silvia Castelli
  • 6 Free Speech and Moses' Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus' Works
  •   Ursula Westwood
  • Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism
  • 7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon
  •   Saskia Dönitz
  • 8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon
  •   David B. Levenson
  • Part 3: Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations
  • 9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon's 'Aeneid' and Adso's Apocalypse
  •   Ruth Nisse
  • 10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15
  •  Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs
  •   Jan Willem van Henten
  • 11 Killing Matthias: De Excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא)
  •   Carson Bay
  • 12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius
  •   Steven Bowman
  • 13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians
  •   Kenneth Atkinson
  • 14 Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration
  •   Daniel Stein Kokin
  • Part 4: Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy
  • 15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions
  •   Martin Goodman
  • 16 Josephus on the School Bench
  •   Meir Ben Shahar
  • 17 'Josephus Proudly Presents': Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries)
  •   Katharina Heyden
  • 18 Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan's Masada
  •   Yael S. Feldman
  • 19 Schalit's Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment
  •   Michael Avioz
  • 20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon
  •   Yonatan Binyam
  • 21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe
  •   Nadia Zeldes
  • 22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-Histories in the Early Modern Yosippon
  •   Andrea Schatz
  • Index of Sources
  • Index of Subjects.