Sheffield Academic Press, 1988. — 272 p. Map of Roman Palestine. Presentation. Our debt to Josephus. Josephus in Jewish and Christian tradition. Main trends in research. The life of Josephus. The writings of Josephus. Purpose, method and disposition. Sources and method. The time before the War. The situation in Palestine in 66. Josephus in Galilee in 66-67. Josephus in the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 482 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the...
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — xvi+466 p. A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the...
Brill, 2007. — 322 p. This collection of articles honoring eminent classicist and historian Louis H. Feldman brings together a host of prominent scholars from all over the world writing on such fields as biblical interpretation, Judaism and Hellenism, Jews and Gentiles, Josephus, Jewish Literatures of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud periods, History of the Mishnah and...
Brill, 2002. — 294 p. Josephus, a Palestinian Jew, authored Bellum Judaicum, which chronicled the Jewish revolt against Rome begun in 66 C.E. in Jerusalem, and roughly twenty years later wrote Antiquitates Judaicae, a study of Jewish history from the creation to 66 C.E. In both Bellum Judaicum and the Vita, an appendix to Antiquitates Judaicae, Josephus deals with his role in...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 417 p. Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. For the first time, this book brings these two...
Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz. — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. — iv, 412 S. — ISBN: 3-7278-0373-8; ISBN: 3-525-53903-7. Erst in unserem Jahrhundert ist der Samaritanischen Religionsgerneinschaft innerhalb der religionsgeschichtlichen und theologischen Forschung vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt worden Interesse an ihr bekunden vorwiegend Bibel- un~...
Greenwood Press, 1982. — 254 p. The book is focused on showing that the Maccabees were the forerunners of the Jewish Nationalism that erupted after the death of Herod the Great and grew apace until the fateful war with Rome which brought on the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. This book was written in the early days of the Dead Sea Scrolls and does not depend on them...
Walter De Gruyter, 1984. - 1072 p. Louis H. Feldman, a professor of Classics at Yeshiva University, has written extensively on Josephus. Gohei Hata, a professor at Tama Bijutsu Univversity, has translated the works of Josephus into Japanese. A collection of critical essays on the state of scholarship on the various topics where research on Josephus has been pursued.
University of California Press, 1999. - 854 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 27). Josephus (A.D. 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is the earliest systematic commentator on the Bible, as well as one of the foremost historians of the beginning of the Christian era. Politically, Josephus was pro-Roman, and although he had no sympathy for...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. - 686 p. - (Supplements to the Journals for the Study of Judaism 58). Consisting of 35 studies of various portions of Josephus' "Jewish Antiquities", this volume is an attempt to examine this systematic commentary on the historical books of the Bible. It considers how Josephus resolves apparent contradictions, abscurities and theological and...
Wayne State University Press, 1987. - 449 p. Louis H. Feldman, a professor of Classics at Yeshiva University, has written extensively on Josephus. Gohei Hata, a professor at Tama Bijutsu Univversity, has translated the works of Josephus into Japanese. A collection of critical essays on the state of scholarship on the various topics where research on Josephus has been pursued.
Wayne State University Press, 1988. - 476 p. A companion volume to Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity, this collection of essays examines the reliability of Josephus, the most important historian of Jewish antiquity. Among the areas explored by fifteen internationally known scholars are Josephus' role in our knowledge of the Biblical canon, his attitude toward women, his use...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1996. - 528 p. - (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 34). This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of papers on one of the most significant works of Flavius Josephus, by many of the leading scholars in current Josephus research. The collection, which includes a concordance by H. Schreckenberg of the Latin...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 41). — ASIN B00RAMNZY4. Born in Jerusalem, Josephus was a man of high descent, who became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature. After defecting to Rome, he was granted citizenship and became an advisor to Emperor Titus, serving as trana slator during the Siege of Jerusalem. Josephus’ works provide valuable insight...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 200 p. The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its composition in Greek for a Roman readership to the myriad ways it touched the lives of Jews and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 410 p. In Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome William den Hollander places under the microscope the Judaean historian's own account of the latter part of his life, following his first encounters with the Romans. Episodes of Josephus' life, such as his embassy to Rome prior to the outbreak of the 1st Judaean Revolt, his prophetic...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. - 471 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 104). The essays in this volume focus on the relationship between Josephus’ Judean and Jewish identity on the one hand, and his life and writings in the context of Flavian Rome on the other. From very different points of view the various contributions to this volume, which is the...
Hendrickson Publishers, 1992. — 257 p. Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New Testament. Josephus tells us about the Herodian family, the temple, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. He mentions James the brother of Jesus, John the Baptist, and even Jesus himself. In Josephus and the New...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 453 p. — (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 146). An International Josephus Colloquium met in Haifa on 2 - 6 July, 2006. It gathered scholars from Japan, Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Britain, Israel, and the USA who represented different disciplines: bible, history, Judaism, and archaeology. The connecting structure of all...
Pucci Ben Zeev M. Jewish Rights in the Roman World - The Greek and Roman Documents Quoted by Josephus Flavius. - J.C.B. Mohr, 1998. - 520 p. Die Autorin präsentiert die übersetzten und kommentierten Texte der griechischen und römischen Dokumente zum Thema der jüdischen Rechte, die von Josephus Flavius zitiert wurden. Sie untersucht diese auf ihre Echtheit und Bedeutung im...
Gerald Duckworth & C o . Ltd., 2003. — 281 p. Introduction to the Second Edition. Table of events. Map: the Palestine of Josephus. Family, Education and Formation. The Greek Language in Josephus' Jerusalem. Josephus' Account of the Breakdown of Consensus. Josephus' Interpretation of the Jewish Revolt. The Structure of the Jewish Revolt. Josephus and the Civil War in Galilee....
Pantheon Books, 2013. — 336 p. From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias's transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian of the Roman...
Brill, 2006. - 486 p. - (Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 110). The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. The contributions in this volume, which were presented at an international colloquium entitled ''Josephus: Interpretation and History'' held in...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 337 p. When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus Flavius, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews’ only hope...
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