Flavius Josephus, Interpretation and History

Leiden: Brill, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. near fine -. Octavo. x, (4), 437, (1)pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 14 text photographs. An ex-library copy but with minimal markings (i.e. rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block), and a few very minor white spots at fore-edge of back cover.

Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium. (OCLC)

An International Josephus Colloquium met in Haifa on 2 - 6 July, 2006. It gathered scholars from Japan, Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Britain, Israel, and the USA who represented different disciplines: bible, history, Judaism, and archaeology. The connecting structure of all the participants was the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. The fruit of this meeting is presented in twenty four articles and an introduction. Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History is a multi-disciplinary collection of research on Josephus, the man, the historian, his era, and his writings. It will be of great use to scholars as well as the general public, who take an interest in the literary work of one of the most controversial figures of his era. (Publisher)

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

Volume 146 of the Brill series, "Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism."