From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond : : Text – Re-interpretations – Afterlives / / edited by Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten.

• Superior document: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Avioz, Michael,; Bay, Carson,; Henten, Jan Willem van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 215
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (684 pages)

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last several decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and beyond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond -- The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship -- Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten -- Part 1: Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features -- 2 Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning -- Steve Mason -- 3 Josephus and the Bible -- Erich S. Gruen -- 4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity -- Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae -- David R. Edwards -- 5 Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus’ Cultic Laws and Constitution -- Silvia Castelli -- 6 Free Speech and Moses’ Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus’ Works -- Ursula Westwood -- Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism -- 7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon -- Saskia Dönitz -- 8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon -- David B. Levenson -- Part 3: Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations -- 9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon’s ‘Aeneid’ and Adso’s Apocalypse -- Ruth Nisse -- 10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15 -- Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs -- Jan Willem van Henten -- 11 Killing Matthias: De Excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא) -- Carson Bay -- 12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius -- Steven Bowman -- 13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians -- Kenneth Atkinson -- 14 Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration -- Daniel Stein Kokin -- Part 4: Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy -- 15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions -- Martin Goodman -- 16 Josephus on the School Bench -- Meir Ben Shahar -- 17 ‘Josephus Proudly Presents’: Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries) -- Katharina Heyden -- 18 Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan’s Masada -- Yael S. Feldman -- 19 Schalit’s Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment -- Michael Avioz -- 20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon -- Yonatan Binyam -- 21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe -- Nadia Zeldes -- 22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-Histories in the Early Modern Yosippon -- Andrea Schatz -- Index of Sources -- Index of Subjects.