From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond: Text – Re-interpretations – Afterlives

Contents
Front cover
Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
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An Introduction to Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship
Part 1 Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features
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Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning
	3 Josephus and the Bible
	4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity: Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae
	5 The Language of the Law: Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus’ Cultic Laws and Constitution
	6 Free Speech and Moses’ Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus’ Works
Part 2 Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism
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The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon
	8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon
Part 3 Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations
	9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon’s ‘Aeneid’ and Adso’s Apocalypse
	10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15: Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs
	11 Killing Matthias: De excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא)
	12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius
	13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians
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Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration
Part 4 Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy
	15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions
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Josephus on the School Bench
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‘Josephus Proudly Presents’: Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries)
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Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan’s Masada
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Schalit’s Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment
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Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon
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The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe
	22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-histories in the Early Modern Yosippon
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources
Index of Subjects
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