Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome in Josephus' Depictions of Past Invasions of Jerusalem /

Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome in Josephus' Depictions of Past Invasions of Jerusalem /

This monograph examines Josephus' depictions of foreign invasions of Jerusalem in his Antiquitates Judaicae . These include the invasions of Shishak, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and Pompey the Great. In examining these narratives, the book approache...

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Main Author: Henderson, Jordan (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 220.

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Jews > History > To 70 A.D.

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Call Number: DS109.912

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Historical Analogies in the Bellum Judaicum
  • 2 Audience
  • 3 Josephus' Authorial Aims
  • 4 Scope and Method
  • 5 Key Themes, Motifs, and Narrative Features
  • 6 Plan
  • Acknowledgement
  • 1 Shishak
  • 1 Biblical Sources
  • 2 Shishak in the Antiquitates
  • 3 Aftermath
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 2 Sennacherib
  • 1 Sennacherib and Hezekiah in Jewish Memory
  • 2 Biblical Sources
  • 3 Sennacherib in the Antiquitates
  • 4 Aftermath
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • 3 Nebuchadnezzar
  • 1 Manasseh and Josiah
  • 2 Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Antiquitates
  • 3 Aftermath
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4 Alexander the Great
  • 1 Alexander the Great in B.J.
  • 2 Seleucid and Roman Domination
  • 3 Alexander, Romans, and Jews
  • 4 Josephus on Alexander
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 5 Antiochus IV Epiphanes
  • 1 Antiochus and Rome in Jewish Memory
  • 2 From Alexander to Antiochus
  • 3 Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the Antiquitates
  • 4 The Maccabean Revolt
  • 5 Aftermath
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 6 Pompey the Great
  • 1 Rome in the Background of the Seleucid and Hasmonean Kingdoms
  • 2 Rise and Fall of the Hasmoneans
  • 3 Rome in the Antiquitates
  • 4 Pompey the Great
  • 5 Aftermath
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • 1 The Antiquitates Judaicae as Prequel to the Bellum Judaicum
  • 2 The Unity of the Antiquitates
  • 3 Collective Memory and Common Knowledge
  • 4 Characterization
  • 5 Prominent Themes, Motifs, and Narrative Features
  • 6 (Re)constructing a Typological Narrative of Defeat and Deliverance
  • Bibliography.