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Title

Josephus' Contra Apionem : studies in its character and context with a Latin concordance to the portion missing in Greek / edited by Louis H. Feldman and John R. Levison.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Feldman, Louis H.
• Levison, John R.

Description

x, 517 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of papers on one of the most significant works of Flavius Josephus, by many of the leading scholars in current Josephus research. The collection, which includes a concordance by H. Schreckenberg of the Latin section Contra Apionem 2.52-113, forms a standard, indispensable resource for the study of Josephus' writings, of apologetic literature in general, and particularly for the study of Contra Apionem , one of the most significant apologetic treatises in Antiquity.

Series Statement

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 0169-734X ; 34

Uniform Title

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums Bd. 34.

Subject

• Josephus, Flavius
• Judaism > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the character and context of Josephus' Contra Apionem -- Text, Uberlieferung and Textkritik von Contra Apionem -- The distinctive vocabulary of Contra Apionem -- Contra Apionem 1:28-56: Josephus' view of his own working he context of the Jewish canon -- Josephus between Greeks and Barbarians -- Polemic and apologetic methods of writing in Contra Apionem -- The Contra Apionem in social and literary context: an invitation to Judean philosophy -- Josephus' Contra Apionem and historical inquiry in the Roman rhetorical schools -- Reading between the lines: appreciation of Judaism in Anti-jewish writers cited in Contra Apionem -- The Jews as Typhonians and Josephus' strategy of refutation in Contra Apionem -- An ass in the Jerusalem temple -- the origins and development of the slander -- Josephus' account of the temple in Contra Apionem 2:102-109 -- Contra Apionem and Antiquitates Judaicae: points of contact -- Contra Apionem and Christian apologetics.

ISBN

9004103252 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96049256^

OCLC

• 36001273
• SCSB-12573878

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library