Making history : Josephus and historical method /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 471 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English German
Series:	Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 110 Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 110.
Subject:	Josephus, Flavius -- Congresses. Josephus, Flavius. Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Historiography -- Congresses. Jews -- Historiography. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157525

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Other authors / contributors:	Rodgers, Zuleika.
ISBN:	9781435614840 1435614844 9789047409069 904740906X 9004150080 9789004150089
Notes:	"International Josephus Colloguium, which took place in Trinity College Dublin in September 2004"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English and German. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. In particular, the question of historical method, both ancient and modern, is explored from a variety of perspectives.
Other form:	Print version: Making history. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 9004150080 9789004150089
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004150089.i-471

Table of Contents:

On referring to something, meaning something, and truth : a terminological proposal / Folker Siegert
Delving into the dark side : Josephus' foresight as hindsight / James S. McLaren
Josephus' personality and the credibility of his narrative / Uriel Rappaport
Masada in the 1st and 21st centuries / Honora Howell Chapman
Josephus' attempt to reorganize Judaism from Rome / Etienne Nodet
Composition and sources in Antiquities 18 : the case of Pontius Pilate / Daniel R. Schwartz
Josephus and Strabo : the reasons for a choice / Alessandro Galimberti
Geschichtsforschung als Apologie : Josephus und die nichtgriechischen Historiker in Contra Apionem / Niclas Förster
Noble death in Josephus : just rhetoric? / Jan Willem van Henten
Essenes and lurking Spartans in Josephus' Judean war : from story to history / Steve Mason
What difference does philosophy make? : the three schools as a rhetorical device in Josephus / Gunnar Haaland
Josephus and Antipas : a case study of Josephus' narratives on Herod Antipas / Morten Hørning Jensen
Josephus and the Psalms of Solomon on Herod's messianic aspirations : an interpretation / Samuel Rocca
Josephus as a source for economic history : problems and approaches / Jack Pastor
Noble deaths at Gamla and Masada? : a critical assessment of Josephus' accounts of Jewish resistance in light of archaeological discoveries / Kenneth Atkinson
The archaeological illumination of Josephus' narrative of the battles at Yodefat and Gamla / Mordechai Aviam
Josephus and archaeology on the cities of the Galilee / Zeev Weiss
Robert Traill : the first Irish critic of William Whiston's translation of Josephus / Gohei Hata.

Making history : Josephus and historical method /

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