Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
cemetery, social pressures may have encouraged converts to assimilate to the group as quickly as possible and not advertise thei ...
Nerva’s reversal of the impiety charge (Hist. Rom.68.1.1), this repeated ref- erence must be linked to the charge of adopting Ju ...
Judaism became a capital offence, though rescinded by Nerva, became law again with Hadrian’s general prohibition of circumcision ...
Judean campaign to become emperor in 69 CE(Josephus,B.J.7.63–74) came the spectacle of Titus’s triumphal march, with Judean rebe ...
erful God (in Origen, Cels.5.41). Minucius Felix’s Caecilius contends that the Judean god had so little power he is now enslaved ...
Laqueur’s cynical view (1970) of Bellum judaicumas a piece of Roman prop- aganda must posit either that Josephus repented betwee ...
done in Bellum judaicum(1.3, 6, 9). Josephus allows that he had intended to include some ancient Judean history in his earlier w ...
following sentences, Josephus ties the Judean laws very closely to the laws of nature. Indeed, he says that Moses first treated ...
tion of God’s nature and has always attributed to Him behaviour appropri- ate to His power, keeping his teaching concerning Him ...
reinforce his theme: the Judean nation is singularly happy, Balaam says, indeed happier than all other nations, because it alone ...
uncongenial source or, better, on the ground that the story “concerns the propagation of Judaism outside the Roman empire in a k ...
reprisals (11.285; cf. Esth. 9:17). So the wicked Persians were forced to adopt the very way of life that they had tried to erad ...
Similarly, the circumcisions of Azizus, king of Emesa, and Polemo, king of Cilicia, to marry Drusilla and Berenike, respectively ...
99–101). Our interest, however, is with the literary question: What does Josephus hope to achieve by including this lengthy stor ...
highly visible Gentile rulers adopt a foreign way of life, when I myself would face all sorts of social obstacles if I converted ...
Thus, Josephus amply demonstrates his assertion that God rewarded Izates’s commitment to a proper conversion (20.48). The conver ...
Those scholars who see Josephus as a quisling who wrote Bellum judaicumas a lackey of Rome and Antiquitates judaicaeas an opport ...
rative with appeals to the reader and refutations of slander but almost always otherwise allowing his judgments, both positive a ...
Body of Contra Apionem Josephus introduces his positive appeal into his so-called “digression” (C.Ap. 1.57), which anticipates s ...
that some of Josephus’s assumptions would not have convinced a critical Greek reader only reinforces the conclusion that Josephu ...
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