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Author: Jonathan Edmondson Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199262128 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 417
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Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. For the first time, this book brings these two phenomena into critical engagement, so that Josephus may illuminate Flavian Rome, and Flavian Rome, Josephus. Who were his likely audiences or patronsin Rome? How did the context in which he wrote affect his writing? What do his narratives say or imply about that context? This book brings together contributions from leading international scholars of Josephus and Flavian-Roman history and literature.
Author: Jonathan Edmondson Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199262128 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. For the first time, this book brings these two phenomena into critical engagement, so that Josephus may illuminate Flavian Rome, and Flavian Rome, Josephus. Who were his likely audiences or patronsin Rome? How did the context in which he wrote affect his writing? What do his narratives say or imply about that context? This book brings together contributions from leading international scholars of Josephus and Flavian-Roman history and literature.
Author: J. C. Edmondson Publisher: ISBN: 9781435622630 Category : Rome Languages : en Pages : 417
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Introduction : Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome /Jonathan Edmondson --Josephus' Roman audience : Josephus and the Roman elites /Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck --Foreign elites at Rome /G.W. Bowersock --Herodians and Ioudaioi in Flavian Rome /Daniel R. Schwartz --Josephus in the diaspora /Tessa Rajak --Last year in Jerusalem : monuments of the Jewish war in Rome /Fergus Millar --The sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus /T.D. Barnes --Flavian religious policy and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple /James Rives --The Fiscus Iudaicus and gentile attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome /Martin Goodman --From exempla to exemplar? : writing history around the emperor in imperial Rome /Christina Shuttleworth Kraus --Josephus and Greek literature in Flavian Rome /Christopher P. Jones --Parallel lives of two lawgivers : Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus /Louis H. Feldman --Figured speech and irony in T. Flavius Josephus /Steve Mason --Spectacle in Josephus' Jewish war /Honora Howell Chapman --The empire writes back : Josephan rhetoric in Flavian Rome /John M.G. Barclay.
Author: Joseph Sievers Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004141790 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 471
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This volume focuses on the interplay between Josephus' Judean identity and his Roman context. After treating historiographical and literary issues, it addresses Josephus' presentation of Judaism and of historical "facts." A final section deals with the transmission of his works.
Author: Anthony Boyle Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004217150 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 796
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The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69-96 ce) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance.
Author: Jonathan Davies Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019888303X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome investigates the problem of contemporary historiography and regime representation in Flavian Rome through a close study of a text not usually read for such purposes but which has obvious promise for a study of this theme, the Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. Having surveyed the evolution of our conception of Josephus' relationship to Flavian power, taken a broad account of issues of political expression and regime representation in Flavian Rome outside Josephus and examined questions relating to the structure and date of the work, Davies provides a series of thematically-focused readings of the three senior members of the Flavian family, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian, as represented by their contemporary and client Josephus. Key topics explored include the level of independence of Josephus' vision, his work's relationship to how the regime is depicted in other contemporary sources, how Josephus makes the Flavians serve his own agenda (which is distinct from the heavy focus of much previous scholarship on how Josephus served their agenda), and the viability and usefulness of certain types of reading practices relating to figured critique which have recently become influential in Josephan scholarship. The book offers a new approach to Josephus' relationship to the Flavian Dynasty and sheds new light on contemporary historiography and political expression in the Early Principate.
Author: Joseph Atwill Publisher: ISBN: 9781461096405 Category : Christianity Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Caesar's Messiah," a real life "Da Vinci Code," presents the dramatic and controversial discovery that the conventional views of Christian origins may be wrong. Author Joseph Atwill makes the case that the Christian Gospels were actually written under the direction of first-century Roman emperors. The purpose of these texts was to establish a peaceful Jewish sect to counterbalance the militaristic Jewish forces that had just been defeated by the Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. Atwill uncovered the secret key to this story in the writings of Josephus, the famed first-century Roman historian. Reading Josephus's chronicle, "The War of the Jews," the author found detail after detail that closely paralleled events recounted in the Gospels. Atwill skillfully demonstrates that the emperors used the Gospels to spark a new religious movement that would aid them in maintaining power and order. What's more, by including hidden literary clues, they took the story of the Emperor Titus's glorious military victory, as recounted by Josephus, and embedded that story in the Gospels - a sly and satirical way of glorifying the emperors through the ages.
Author: F. B. Asiedu Publisher: Fortress Academic ISBN: 9781978701342 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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This book explores Josephus's silences as a historian of Jewish life and of early Christianity and how his silences and omissions are similar to and different from the silences of other writers like Tacitus and Pliny the Younger, who lived in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian.
Author: Jack Pastor Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004191267 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 453
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Josephus, the Jewish historian who wrote about history, bible, and serves as a source for a wide-range of related disciplines is the subject of twenty four articles which grew out of an international colloquium.
Author: Jason von Ehrenkrook Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers ISBN: 9789004211711 Category : Idolatry Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book investigates the discourse on images in the writings of Flavius Josephus, focusing on the contentious relationship between Jews and images and demonstrating that the impression of opposition to figurative art is a rhetorical effort to express values shared by Jews and Romans alike, mitigating their tense relationship after the Jewish revolt against Rome.
Author: Antony Augoustakis Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487505531 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 341
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This book investigates the presence of Fides (good faith) in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome's civil wars (68-69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.
Author: Jonathan Edmondson
Author: Jonathan Edmondson
Author: J. C. Edmondson
Author: Joseph Sievers
Author: Anthony Boyle
Author: Jonathan Davies
Author: Joseph Atwill
Author: F. B. Asiedu
Author: Jack Pastor
Author: Jason von Ehrenkrook
Author: Antony Augoustakis