Rethinking the Jewish War
Subtitle: Archeology, Society, Traditions
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Published: 2021
Language: eng; fre; ger; ita
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789042943025
Description: This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen papers probes key aspects of the First Jewish Revolt from a wide variety of perspectives: archeology, Roman military, administration, and ethos, Second Temple Jewish society, and rabbinic and early Christian reception. Delivered at a large international conference organized at the E cole biblique et arche ologique franc ʹaise de Je rusalem in 2018, the contributions respond to many classic questions about the reliability of Josephus and interact in various ways with Steve Mason's major study, 'A History of the Jewish War' (Cambridge, 2016), including his controversial views on the scope and religious nature of the conflict. Mason's own response comprises the final chapter.