Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

Wolfson, Harry Austryn. 1948.Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Juda- ism, Christianity, and Islam.2 vols. Cambridge: ...

Allegorical Commentary Borgen, Peder. 1997.Philo of Alexandria: An Exegete of His Time.Leiden: Brill. Dawson, David. 1992.Allego ...

Winston, David. 1998. “Philo and the Rabbis on Sex and Body.”Poetics Today19: 41-62. Worthington, Jonathan D. 2011.Creation in P ...

Graffigna, Paola. 1992.Filone d’Alexandria, De vita contemplative.Genova: Melangelo. Taylor, Joan E. 2003.Jewish Women Philosoph ...

Josephus Steve Mason, James S. McLaren, and John M. G. Barclay Josephus was a general during the First Jewish Revolt against Rom ...

we know about thenomen“Flavius” from later writers, and it confirms the expected three-part citizen’s name, derived from Titus F ...

Josephus was much more important and well connected in Jerusalem than Wa rhad volunteered. Scholars concluded that if the entire ...

has written anoeuvreabout these things” (336). It is difficult to see how Josephus’s audiences could have understood him to be r ...

TheLifethus appears to be Josephus’s effort, in a rather hurried com- position, to close his major work with an appendix “About ...

(271–304), operates under its own logic. Concentric or ring composition is, however, a noteworthy aesthetic feature of Josephus’ ...

tracts of what was still a work in progress. Elsewhere, Josephus states that he sent material to Titus and Agrippa II in order t ...

(J.W.4.491-663). The preparations for the siege and the detailed account of the actual assault on Jerusalem constitute books 5 a ...

garding Jewish customs and important historical figures, including Judas Maccabee, suggest an intended audience that was not fam ...

in Jerusalem that they should also surrender (J.W.6.96-110), has often at- tracted strong criticism of his behavior. At the same ...

Occasion and Date Although theAntiquitiesturned out to be Josephus’smagnum opus,he may not have initially intended it as a separ ...

achievements of generals, and reversals of constitution” (Ant.1.13; note again the military emphasis). He stresses the moral les ...

Intended Audience A final noteworthy feature ofAntiquities’prologue is its tone of outreach. In contrast toWa randApion,where he ...

to Judean customs to illustrate some other moral point (Arrian,Epicteti Dissertationes2.9.20; Juvenal 5.14.96-106); so the pheno ...

sions only a rewriting of the sacred texts, that possibility seems excluded by Apion1.54. There, writing after the completion of ...

jor works, showing no hint of embarrassment overWar. Antiquitiesintro- duces the Pharisees very late in the piece (13.171) and t ...