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Book SynopsisA Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.
Trade Review"The contributors to this truly magnificent collection of scholarship read like a who’s who in classics and religion academia............A wide variety of topics, an exhaustive bibliography, and fresh notions and research add to the immense value of this volume for both researchers and readers." (Choice Connect 2016)
"...this book is a right royal feast, and an essential purchase for anyone interested in what can be said about Flavius Josephus." (Dr. Michael Mates, United Nations of Roma Victrix Book Review)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
List of Illustrations xii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1
Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers
Part I Writings 11
1 Josephus’s Judean War 13
Steve Mason
2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities 36
Daniel R. Schwartz
3 Josephus’s Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59
Steve Mason
4 Against Apion 75
John Barclay
Part II Josephus’s Literary Context 87
5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89
Steve Mason
6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108
Eran Almagor
7 Josephus and the Bible 123
Paul Spilsbury
8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135
Maren R. Niehoff
9 Josephus and the New Testament 147
Helen K. Bond
Part III Themes 159
10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161
Zeev Weiss
11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199
Jonathan P. Roth
12 Josephus on Women 210
Tal Ilan
13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222
Erich S. Gruen
14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235
Jan Willem van Henten
15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247
David A. Kaden
16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261
Albert I. Baumgarten
17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273
James S. McLaren
18 Josephus and Halacha 282
David Nakman
19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293
Richard Kalmin
Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305
20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307
Tommaso Leoni
21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322
David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345
Alice Whealey
23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356
Sabrina Inowlocki
24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368
Karen M. Kletter
25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382
Saskia Dönitz
26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus’s Jewish War 390
Kate Leeming
27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402
Silvia Castelli
28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414
Gohei Hata
29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth]Century Hebrew Scholarship 419
Daniel R. Schwartz
30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 440
Honora Howell Chapman
Index 455
