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OverviewTwo millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carson Bay , Michael Avioz , Jan Willem van HentenPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 215 Weight: 1.256kg ISBN: 9789004693289ISBN 10: 9004693289 Pages: 664 Publication Date: 06 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 An Introduction to Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten Part 1: Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features 2 Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning Steve Mason 3 Josephus and the Bible Erich S. Gruen 4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity: Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae David R. Edwards 5 The Language of the Law: Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus’ Cultic Laws and Constitution Silvia Castelli 6 Free Speech and Moses’ Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus’ Works Ursula Westwood Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism 7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon Saskia Dönitz 8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon David B. Levenson Part 3: Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations 9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon’s ‘Aeneid’ and Adso’s Apocalypse Ruth Nisse 10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15: Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs Jan Willem van Henten 11 Killing Matthias: De excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא) Carson Bay 12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius Steven Bowman 13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians Kenneth Atkinson 14 Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration Daniel Stein Kokin Part 4: Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy 15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions Martin Goodman 16 Josephus on the School Bench Meir Ben Shahar 17 ‘Josephus Proudly Presents’: Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries) Katharina Heyden 18 Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan’s Masada Yael S. Feldman 19 Schalit’s Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus’ Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment Michael Avioz 20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon Yonatan Binyam 21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe Nadia Zeldes 22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-histories in the Early Modern Yosippon Andrea Schatz Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources Index of SubjectsReviewsAuthor InformationCarson Bay, PhD (2018), Florida State University, is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Bern. He has published on Josephus, his Latin reception and Pseudo-Hegesippus, and the Hebrew Sefer Yosippon. His book Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (Cambridge University Press, 2023), won a 2023 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award. Michael Avioz, PhD (2002), Bar-Ilan University, is Full Professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on biblical historiography and early biblical interpretation. He is author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Josephus’ Interpretation of the Books of Samuel and, most recently, Legal Exegesis of Scripture in the Works of Josephus (T&T Clark, 2020). Jan Willem van Henten, PhD (1986), Leiden University, is Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Amsterdam, and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Biblical Studies at Stellenbosch University. He is editor of The Books of the Maccabees: Literary, Historical, and Religious Perspectives (Peeters, 2022) and co-author of Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity: From the Books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud (Brill, 2023, with Friedrich Avemarie and Yair Furstenberg). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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