Flavius Josephus

Flavius Josephus interpretation and history / [electronic resource] : edited by Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern, and Menahem Mor. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 437 p.) : ill. - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146 . - Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 146. .

Conference papers. "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"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Josephus, Flavius--Congresses.


Jews--History--Historiography--168 B.C.-135 A.D.--Congresses.
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