FLAV JOSEPHUS FLAVIAN ROM C

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-926212-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

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 patrons in 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmondson

Edmondson, Jonathan

Mason, Steve

Rives, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome

- I. Josephus in the Social and Political Context of Flavian Rome

- 1: Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck: Josephus' Roman Audience: Josephus and the Roman Elites

- 2: G.W. Bowersock: Foreign Elites at Rome

- 3: Daniel R. Schwartz: Herodians and `Ioudaioi' in Flavian Rome

- 4: Tessa Rajak: Josephus in the Diaspora

- II. The Impact of the Jewish War in Flavian Rome

- 5: Fergus Millar: Last Year in Jerusalem: Monuments of the Jewish War in Rome

- 6: T. D. Barnes: The Sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus

- 7: James Rives: Flavian Religious Policy and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple

- 8: Martin Goodman: The `Fiscus Iudaicus' and Gentile Attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome

- III. Josephus: Literature and Historiography in Flavian Rome

- 9: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: From `Exempla' to `Exemplar'? Writing History around the Emperor in Imperial Rome

- 10: Christopher P. Jones: Josephus and Greek Literature in Flavian Rome

- 11: Louis H. Feldman: Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's `Lycurgus'

- 12: Steve Mason: Figured Speech and Irony in T. Flavius Josephus

- 13: Honora Howell Chapman: Spectacle in Josephus' `Bellum Judaicum'

- 14: John M. G. Barclay: The Empire Writes Back: Josephan Rhetoric in Flavian Rome

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Edmondson is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto

Steve Mason is Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction, York University, Toronto

James Rives is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto