Flavius Josephus
Subtitle: interpretation and history
By: edited by Jack Pastor, Pnina Stern, and Menahem Mor
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism -- v. 146
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9789004191266
Subjects: Historiography; Congresses; Jews; History
Notes: "This volume was born of an international conference entitled 'Making history: Josephus and historical method' held at the University of Haifa from 2-6 July, 2006"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical chronology of the Hasmonean period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: separating fact from fiction / Kenneth Atkinson; title: Socio-economic hierarchy and its economic foundations in first century Galilee: the evidence from Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam; title: Le systeme sacrificiel de Flavius Josephe au Livre III des Antiquites Juives (Ant. 3.224-236) / Christophe Batsch; title: Between fact and fiction: Josephus' account of the destruction of the Temple / Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev; title: Flavius Josephus in Rome / John Curran; title: Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus / Niclas Forster; title: Reconstructing Exodus tradition: Moses in the second book of Josephus' Antiquities / Giovanni Frulla; title: Unity and chronology in the Jewish Antiquities / Dov Gera; title: Polybius and Josephus on Rome / Erich S. Gruen; title: ^; title: Convenient fiction or causal factor?: the questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2 / Gunnar Haaland; title: Where is the temple site of Onias IV in Egypt? / Gohei Hata; title: Constructing Herod as a tyrant: assessing Josephus' parallel passages / Jan Willem van Henten; title: Josephus at Jotapata: why Josephus wrote what he wrote / Tessel M. Jonquiere; title: Josephus on Herod's spring from the shadows of the Parthian invasion / Aryeh Kasher; title: Josephus on poisoning and magic cures or, on the meaning of Pharmakon / Samuel S. Kottek; title: Josephus and discrepant sources / Etienne Nodet; title: Josephus, the Temple, and the Jewish War / Eyal Regev; title: The purposes and functions of the synagogue in late Second Temple period Judaea: evidence from Josephus and archaeological investigation / Samuel Rocca; title: Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus / Gottfried Schimanowski; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Josephus, Catullus, divine providence, and the date of the Judean War / Daniel R. Schwartz; title: Josephus the stage manager at the service of Josephus the dramatist: Masada as test case / Yuval Shahar; title: Josephus and Justus: The place of Chapter 65 (336-367) in Life, the autobiography of Flavius Josephus / Pnina Stern; title: A Jewish Priest in Rome / Michael Tuval; title: To be or not to be: an historical interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus' Antiquities / Jozsef Zsengeller.; title: ^^