Rewriting Ancient Jewish History

Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method- Front Cover
 Rewriting Ancient Jewish History: The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Dedication
 Contents
 Introduction
 WHAT IS HISTORY?
 THE HISTORICAL METHOD AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
 THE OUTLINE OF THIS BOOK
 NOTES
 PART I: Authenticity
 Chapter 1: Can multiple versions of a text be equally authentic?
 A BRIEF SURVEY OF SOURCES FOR JEWISH HISTORY FROM ROMAN ANTIQUITY
 THE AUTHENTICITY OF ANCIENT JEWISH SOURCES. THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS IN ANCIENT JEWISH SOURCESTHE INDEPENDENT REDACTIONS OF BABYLONIAN TALMUD PESAHIM ACCORDING TO ELIEZER SHIMSHON ROSENTHAL
 THE FLAWS IN ROSENTHAL'S ARGUMENT
 THE EDITED PARALLELS METHOD
 NOTES
 PART II: Hermeneutics
 Chapter 2: The rabbis as unusual Romans
 LANGUAGE, CONTEXT, AND SETTING
 TRADITIONAL HERMENEUTICS' SHORTCOMINGS
 THE NEW CULTURAL DIMENSION OF HERMENEUTICS
 NOTES
 PART III: Credibility
 Chapter 3: An introduction to credibility: on sources, credibility, and corroboration
 THE PROXIMITY OF SOURCES TO THE EVENTS THEY PORTRAY. CREDIBILITYCORROBORATION
 NOTES
 Chapter 4: Recovering Josephus's sources
 THE FIRST BIBLICAL EPISODE OF HAGAR IN JOSEPHUS'S ANTIQUITIES
 JOSEPHUS AS ANTHOLOGIST OR AS AUTHOR
 GORGIAS'S SURPRISE ATTACK ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS'S ANTIQUITIES
 REWRITING NICOLAUS OF DAMASCUS IN JOSEPHUS'S ANTIQUITIES
 NOTES
 Chapter 5: Josephus and history
 THE PUBLICATION OF THE JEWISH WAR
 THE FALL OF MASADA
 NOTES
 Chapter 6: The traditional historical method on the credibility of rabbinic literature
 THE PRESUMPTION OF GENUINENESS
 THE PRESUMPTION OF CREDIBILITY AND THE INDEPENDENT PARALLELS METHOD. CORROBORATION AND THE INDEPENDENT PARALLELS METHODNOTES
 Chapter 7: The collapse of the traditional presumptions about rabbinic literature
 UNDERMINING THE TRADITIONAL FAITH IN THE ESSENTIAL RELIABILITY OF RABBINIC LITERATURE
 TRANSMISSION AS TRANSFORMATION
 GENRE
 THE LITERARY FORMATION OF RABBINIC TRADITIONS
 RELINQUISHING EVENT-ORIENTED HISTORY FOR CONTEXTUAL STUDIES
 NOTES
 Chapter 8: The new historical method on the credibility of rabbinic literature: three case studies
 "BEHOLD I AM ABOUT SEVENTY YEARS OLD ... "
 RABBI HIYYA'S EDUCATIONAL MISSION ACCORDING TO THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. RABBAN YOHANAN BEN ZAKKAI'S ESCAPE FROM JERUSALEMTHE FORMATION OF THE STORY OF RABBAN YOHANAN BEN ZAKKAI'S ESCAPE FROM JERUSALEM
 NOTES
 PART IV: Conclusion
 Chapter 9: On Hillel the Elder's rise to greatness
 AUTHENTICITY
 HERMENEUTICS
 CREDIBILITY
 THE STORY'S LITERARY FORMATION
 ON THE DOORKEEPER
 NOTES
 Epilogue
 NOTES
 Bibliography
 ANCIENT SOURCES
 MEDIEVAL AND MODERN SOURCES
 Subject Index
 Index of Sources.