A companion to Josephus in his world

Content: Notes on Contributors viii    List of Illustrations xii    Abbreviations xiv    Introduction 1 Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers    Part I Writings 11    1 Josephus   s Judean War 13 Steve Mason    2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus   s Jewish Antiquities 36 Daniel R. Schwartz    3 Josephus   s Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59 Steve Mason    4 Against Apion 75 John Barclay    Part II   Josephus   s Literary Context 87    5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89 Steve Mason    6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108 Eran Almagor    7 Josephus and the Bible 123 Paul Spilsbury    8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135 Maren R. Niehoff    9 Josephus and the New Testament 147 Helen K. Bond    Part III Themes 159    10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161 Zeev Weiss    11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199 Jonathan P. Roth    12 Josephus on Women 210 Tal Ilan    13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222 Erich S. Gruen    14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235 Jan Willem van Henten    15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247 David A. Kaden    16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261 Albert I. Baumgarten    17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273 James S. McLaren    18 Josephus and Halacha 282 David Nakman    19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293 Richard Kalmin    Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305    20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307 Tommaso Leoni    21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322 David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin    22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345 Alice Whealey    23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356 Sabrina Inowlocki    24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368 Karen M. Kletter    25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382 Saskia Donitz    26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus   s Jewish War 390 Kate Leeming    27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402 Silvia Castelli    28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414 Gohei Hata    29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth  ]Century Hebrew Scholarship 419 Daniel R. Schwartz    30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python   s Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 440 Honora Howell Chapman    Index 455