Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

both are set in or near Mesopotamia and have to do with conversion. This correspondence is enhanced by Josephus’s mention in the ...

Samuel already insisted (Ant.4.223; 6.36, 84) — was that of an aristocracy anchored in the hereditary priesthood (cf. 5.135; 6.2 ...

paintingallthe rulers from Julius Caesar onward as tyrants (19.169-74). This is striking, unparalleled in Roman literature of th ...

Contents The work takes its starting point from a skeptical reception ofAntiquities, as some reportedly doubted Josephus’s claim ...

leveled at the Judean nation from a variety of sources. In the first place, he gathers and critiques three related “Egyptian” ac ...

on friendliness to outsiders. Josephus next expands his emphasis on Judean endurance (2.219-35), by comparison with the famous r ...

tions about readers’ knowledge, values, and interest, an interested non- Judean audience, more likely to be identified with the ...

most impressive attempts to present Judean culture in terms understand- able and attractive to those reared in the Greco-Roman t ...

of Christian authors in the second and third centuriesc.e., who cite him with increasing emphasis through Origen in the third ce ...

betrayal and cowardice;his writing in Greek and in isolation from the growing rabbinic literature based in postwar Judea, Galile ...

theComplete Concordancein 1983, followed quickly by the development of electronic databases that include Josephus along with cou ...

of Josephus’s works for historical study and our estimation of the histori- cal man. As for history, it is no longer possible to ...

a chain of small, typical situations and events that led to unintended con- sequences; in the process he tried consistently to r ...

¾¾¾. 2003a. “Contradiction or Counterpoint? Josephus and Historical Method.”Review of Rabbinic Judaism6: 145-88. ¾¾¾. 2003b.Jose ...

Making History: Josephus and Historical Method.Ed. Zuleika Rodgers. Leiden: Brill, 49-67. Parente, Fausto. 2005. “The Impotence ...

Mason, Steve. 1991.Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees: A Composition-Critical Study. Leiden: Brill. Nakman, David. 2004. “The Hal ...

Archaeology, Papyri, and Inscriptions Jürgen K. Zangenberg Next to literary texts, the remains of material culture are an essent ...

Jewish material culture if it influenced developments and trends in the Jewish world or illustrates the conditions under which J ...

economic exploitation in Palestine and the way local elites were used by the king to secure regular taxation. From the second ha ...

Jerusalem In contrast to these urban centers, only one place in Judea deserved the la- belcity:Jerusalem. Its only source of inc ...