Studies in Josephus and the varieties of ancient Judaism : Louis H. Feldman jubilee volume / / edited by Shaye J.D. Cohen and Joshua J. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 67
• Author: Cohen
• TeilnehmendeR: Feldman, Louis H.; Cohen, Shaye J. D.; Schwartz, Joshua.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 67.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Former students, colleagues and friends of the eminent classicist and historian Prof. Louis H. Feldman are pleased to honor him with a Jubilee volume. While Prof. Feldman has long been considered an outstanding scholar of Josephus, his scholarly interests and research interests pertain to almost all aspects of the ancient world and Jews. The articles in Judaism in the Ancient World: Louis H. Feldman Jubilee Volume relate to the fields studies by Prof. Feldman such as biblical interpretation, Judaism and Hellenism, Jews and Gentiles, Josephus, Jewish Literatures of the Second Temple, History of the Mishnah and Talmud periods, Jerusalem and much more. The contributors to this volume are among the most prominent in their fields and hail from the international scholarly community.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Cohen and J.J. Schwartz -- Josephus on ancient jewish groups from a social scientific perspective / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Maccabees, Zealots and Josephus: The impact of zionism on Joseph Klausner’s history of the Second Temple / David Berger -- ‘Your covenant that you have sealed in our flesh’: Women, covenant,and circumcision / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Who are the kings of east and west in Ber 7a?: Roman religion, syrian gods and zoroastrianism in the babylonian Talmud / Yaakov Elman -- The meaning of ‘Fisci Iudaici Calumnia Sublata’ on the coinage of Nerva / Martin Goodman -- The abuse and misuse of Josephus in Eusebius’ ecclesiastical history,books 2 and 3 / Gohei Hata -- Justus of Tiberias and the synchronistic chronology of Israel / Chaim Milikowsky -- ‘Women Are (not) trustworthy’—Toward the resolution of a talmudic crux / Leib Moscovitz -- Josephus and the books of Samuel / Etienne Nodet -- Lysias—an outstanding seleucid politician / Uriel Rappaport -- Document and rhetoric in Josephus: Revisiting the ‘charter’ for the jews / Tessa Rajak -- Adnotationes criticae ad Flavii Josephi contra Apionem / Heinz Schreckenberg -- Josephus on his jewish forerunners (contra Apionem 1.218) / Daniel R. Schwartz -- Are the ‘Halachic Temple Mount’ and the ‘Outer Court’ of Josephus one and the same? / Joshua Schwartz and Yehoshua Peleg -- Conversion to judaism in the Second Temple period: A functionalist approach / Seth Schwartz -- Jews and gentiles from Judas Maccabaeus to John Hyrcanus according to contemporary jewish sources / Israel Shatzman -- The ancient lists of contents of Josephus’ antiquities / Joseph Sievers -- Index of sources / Cohen and J.J. Schwartz -- Index of scholars cited / Cohen and J.J. Schwartz.