Understanding Josephus
Subtitle: seven perspectives
By:  edited by Steve Mason.
Contributors: Mason, Steve, 1957-
Series: Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series -- 32.
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press; Bloomsbury T&T Clark; UNKNO
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius -- Criticism and interpretation; Josephus, Flavius; Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Josephus and the afterlife / Joseph Sievers; title: Josephus and Jewish apocalypticism / Per Bilde; title: Should any wish to enquire further (Ant. 1.25) : the aim and audience of Josephus's Judean antiquities/life / Steve Mason; title: The invisible presence : Josephus's retelling of Ruth / Gregory E. Sterling; title: God and Israel in Josephus : a patron-client relationship / Paul Spilsbury; title: Josephus v. Apion : analysis of an argument / John M.G. Barclay; title: The Against Apion and the continuities in Josephus's political thought / Tessa Rajak.