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Josephus's interpretation of the Bible / Louis H. Feldman.

Title
Josephus's interpretation of the Bible / Louis H. Feldman.
Author
Feldman, Louis H.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

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Description
xvi, 837 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Hellenistic culture and society ; 27.
Uniform Title
Hellenistic culture and society ; 27..
Subject
  • Josephus, Flavius
  • Bible. > Biography
  • To 70
  • Judaism > History and criticism
  • Jews > Historiography. > To 70 A.D
  • Heroes in the Bible
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Indexes: 'Passages from ancient writers': p. 703-792; 'General index': p. 793-809; 'Greek, Latin, and Hebrew and Aramaic words': p. 811-829; 'Modern scholars': p. 831-837.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography (p. 675-701).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. General considerations. Josephus's historiographical predecessors -- Josephus as rewriter of the Bible -- The qualities of biblical heroes -- Josephus as apologist to non-Jews and to Jews -- Stylistic and other changes -- pt. 2. Josephus's biblical portraits. Abraham -- Isaac -- Jacob -- Joseph -- Moses -- Joshua -- Samson -- Samuel -- Saul -- David -- Solomon -- Daniel.
ISBN
0520208536 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97036613^//r97
OCLC
37509924
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library