Making history : : Josephus and historical method /

Making history : : Josephus and historical method / / edited by Zuleika Rodgers.

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The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. The contributions in this volume, which were presented at an international colloquium entitled “Josephus: Interpretation and History” held in Dublin in 2004,...

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Rodgers, Zuleika.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, v. 110
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110.
Physical Description:1 online resource (485 p.)
Notes:"International Josephus Colloguium, which took place in Trinity College Dublin in September 2004"--Pref.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Z. Rodgers
  • Introduction / Z. Rodgers
  • On referring to something, meaning something, and truth: A terminological proposal / Folker Siegert
  • Delving into the dark side: Josephus’ foresight as hindsight / James S. Mclaren
  • Josephus’ personality and the credibility of his narrative / Uriel Rappaport
  • Masada in the 1st and 21st centuries / Honora Howell Chapman
  • Josephus’ attempt to reorganize judaism from Rome / Etienne Nodet
  • Composition and sources in Antiquities 18: The case of Pontius Pilate / Daniel R. Schwartz
  • Josephus and Strabo: The reasons for a choice / Alessandro Galimberti
  • Geschichtsforschung als Apologie: Josephus und die Nicht-Griechischen Historiker in contra Apionem / Niclas Förster
  • Noble death in Josephus: Just rhetoric? / Jan Willem Van Henten
  • Essenes and lurking spartans in Josephus’ judean war: From story to history / Steve Mason
  • What difference does philosophy make? The three schools as a rhetorical Devicein Josephus / Gunnar Haaland
  • Josephus and Antipas: A case study of Josephus’ narratives on Herod Antipas / Morten Hørning Jensen
  • Josephus and the psalms of Solomon on Herod’s messianic aspirations:An interpretation / Samuel Rocca
  • Josephus as a source for economic history: Problems and approaches / Jack Pastor
  • Noble deaths at Gamla and Masada? A critical assessment of Josephus’accounts of jewish resistance in light of archaeological discoveries / Kenneth Atkinson
  • The archaeological illumination of Josephus’ narrative of the battles at Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam
  • Josephus and archaeology on the cities of the Galilee / Zeev Weiss
  • Robert Traill: The first irish critic of William Whiston’s translation of Josephus (A Special lecture to Mark the hosting of the international Josephus Colloquium in Trinity College Dublin) / Gohei Hata
  • Index of ancient sources / Z. Rodgers
  • General index / Z. Rodgers
  • Index of modern authors / Z. Rodgers.

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