Flavius Josephus: Interpretation and History (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
The Historical Chronology of the Hasmonean Period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: Separating Fact from Fiction......Page 22
Socio-economic Hierarchy and its Economic Foundations in First Century Galilee: The Evidence from Yodefat and Gamla......Page 44
Le Système Sacrificiel de Flavius Josèphe au Livre III des Antiquitès Juives (Ant. 3.224–236)......Page 54
Between Fact and Fiction: Josephus’ Account of the Destruction of the Temple......Page 68
Flavius Josephus in Rome......Page 80
Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus......Page 102
Reconstructing Exodus Tradition: Moses in the Second Book of Josephus’ Antiquities......Page 126
Unity and Chronology in the Jewish Antiquities......Page 140
Polybius and Josephus on Rome......Page 164
Convenient Fiction or Causal Factor? The Questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2......Page 178
Where is the Temple Site of Onias IV in Egypt?......Page 192
Constructing Herod as a Tyrant: Assessing Josephus’ Parallel Passages......Page 208
Josephus at Jotapata: Why Josephus Wrote What He Wrote......Page 232
Josephus on Herod’s Spring from the Shadows of the Parthian Invasion......Page 242
Josephus on Poisoning and Magic Cures or, On the Meaning of Pharmakon......Page 262
Josephus and Discrepant Sources......Page 274
Josephus, the Τemple, and the Jewish War......Page 294
The Purposes and Functions of the Synagogue in Late Second Temple Period Judaea: Evidence from Josephus and Archaeological Investigation......Page 310
Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus......Page 330
Josephus, Catullus, Divine Providence, and the Date of the Judean War......Page 346
Josephus the Stage Manager at the Service of Josephus the Dramatist: Masada as Test Case......Page 368
Josephus and Justus: The Place of Chapter 65 (336–367) in Life, the Autobiography of Flavius Josephus......Page 396
A Jewish Priest in Rome......Page 412
“To be or not to be . . .” An Historical Interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus’ Antiquities......Page 428
General Index......Page 446