Josephus, Judea, and Christian origins
Subtitle: methods and categories
By: Steve Mason.
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Peabody, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781598562545
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius; Christianity -- Origin -- Historiography; Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D. -- Historiography; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Historiography; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Steve Mason; title: Josephus : interpretation and history; title: Josephus as authority for first-century Judea; title: Of audience and meaning : reading Josephus's Judean War in the context of a Flavian audience; title: Figured speech and irony in T. Flavius Josephus; title: Contradiction or counterpoint? : Josephus and historical method; title: Josephus and Judean society; title: Jews, Judeans, judaizing, Judaism : problems of categorization in ancient history; title: Pharisees in the narratives of Josephus; title: The philosophy of Josephus's Pharisees; title: The Essenes of Josephus's Judean War : from story to history; title: Christian origins; title: Paul's announcement : "good news" and its detractors in the first two Christian generations; title: "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel" (Rom. 1:16) : the Gospel and the first readers of Romans; title: Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Sanhedrin in Luke-Acts and Josephus.