Research Catalog

Title

Image and imitation : Josephus' Antiquities 1-11 and Greco-Roman historiography / Martin Friis.

Author

Friis, Martin, 1985-

Publication

• Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xiii, 242 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Publisher's description: Flavius Josephus ranks among the most influential and prolific ancient Jewish writers. His account of near-contemporary events in the Jewish War and the latter half of the Jewish Antiquities have often been subjected to critical scrutiny. Josephus' writings, however, also include an account of the most remote past of the Jewish people in the first eleven books of the Jewish Antiquities. Yet, only rarely has this part of his authorship been subjected to a historiographically oriented analysis. Martin Friis offers such an analysis with emphasis on Josephus' various strategies of self-presentation. He provides numerous examples of the comprehensiveness of Josephus' self-presentational style, and shows how Josephus consistently presents himself as a capable and competent historian in a manner that is highly reminiscent of, and easily comparable to, that of some of the greatest ancient Greco-Roman historians.

Series Statement

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 0340-9570 ; 472

Uniform Title

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 472.

Alternative Title

Josephus' Antiquities 1-11 and Greco-Roman historiography

Subject

• Josephus, Flavius
• Antiquitates Judaicae (Josephus, Flavius)
• To 1500
• Historiography > Greece > History > To 1500
• Historiography > Rome > History > To 1500
• Historiography
• Greece
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Revised version of PhD dissertation at the University op Copenhagen, 2015

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and indexes

Contents

Introduction: The antiquities and ancient historiography. Introductory -- A Jewish history for a non-jewish audience -- A handful of histories? The diversity of ancient histories -- Modern scholarship on ancient historiography -- Concluding remarks -- Setting the stage for history: ways of introduction -- Introductory -- 'Allow me to introduce myself...': ways of self-introduction -- '... and my work': the historian and his chosen subject matter -- Concluding remarks -- A matter of persuasion: the importance of a sound methodology -- Introductory -- Ancient literary critics on the nature of ancient histories -- The historian and his personal experience -- The historian and the oral tradition -- The historian and his written sources-- Concluding remarks -- The historian and his predecessors: Josephus and his colleagues -- Introductory -- Ancient literary critics on the works of specific historians -- The ancient historian and his predecessors -- Josephus on his Greco-Roman predecessors -- Concluding remarks -- A story for the ages: Josephus' authorial presence -- Introductory -- Everything in order: ways of arrangement.

Call Number

JFE 19-1459

ISBN

• 9783161564666
• 3161564669

OCLC

1059272506

Author

Friis, Martin, 1985- author. Author

Title

Image and imitation : Josephus' Antiquities 1-11 and Greco-Roman historiography / Martin Friis.

Publisher

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 0340-9570 ; 472

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 472.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and indexes

Chronological Term

To 1500

Other Standard Identifier

10.1628/978-3-16-156467-3 doi

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1459