Synagogues in the works of Flavius Josephus : rhetoric, spatiality, and first-century Jewish institutions /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Krause, Andrew R., author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 1871-6636 ; volume 97 Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 97.
Subject:	Josephus, Flavius. Josephus, Flavius. Synagogues -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500. Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D. Jews. Synagogues. Middle East -- Palestine. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12017187

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ISBN:	9789004342040 9004342044 9789004341821 900434182X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In Synagogues in the Works of Flavius Josephus, Andrew Krause analyses the place of the synagogue within the cultural and spatial rhetoric of Flavius Josephus. Engaging with both rhetorical critical methods and critical spatial theories, Krause argues that in his later writings Josephus portrays the Jewish institutions as an important aspect of the post-Temple, pan-diasporic Judaism that he creates. Specifically, Josephus consistently treats the synagogue as a supra-local rallying point for the Jews throughout the world, in which the Jewish customs and Law may be practiced and disseminated following the loss of the Temple and the Land. Conversely, in his earliest extant work, Bellum judaicum, Josephus portrays synagogues as local temples in order to condemn the Jewish insurgents who violated them"--
Other form:	Print version: Krause, Andrew R. Synagogues in the works of Flavius Josephus. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004341821

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Review of past research
Early synagogues
Synagogues in Josephus
Josephus as a historical source
Theory, methodology, and prospect
The ideal synagogue and ancestral customs in antiquitates judaicae
The rhetorical structure of Antiquitates Judaicae
Antiquitates Judaicae 12-16
Narratives and speeches in AJ 12-16
Roman acta and the place of the synagogue in Josephus' Judaism
Compositional and dating issues
The contents and significance of the roman acta
Conclusion
Antiquitates judaicae 1-11
Josephus' 'Bible'
Josephus' biblical text
Josephus' biblical paraphrase in historiographic context
Public assemblies in Josephus' biblical paraphrase
Moses' ekklēsia/sunagōē [Greek words] and the ancestral traditions
Conclusion
Antiquitates Judaicae 17-20
Movement towards the revolt in AJ 17-20
The Dora synagogue crisis in context
Conclusion
Summary and conclusion
The synagogue as ideal association and historical people's assembly in vita
Josephus as autobiographer
Vita 271-303 on the synagogue
Assemblies
Fasting and communal Sabbath meals
Piety and religious obligations
Conclusion
Synagogue as an ideal educational institution in Contra Apionem
Context and rhetoric of Contra Apionem
Place within the Josephan corpus
Rhetorical structure
Ethnicity
Law and constitution
Proper and improper synagogues in C. Ap. 2
Education and its place within the synagogue and Roman culture
Conclusion
Synagogue as (contrived) holy place in Bellum Judaicum
Context and rhetoric of Bellum Judaicum
'Iera [Greek word], temples, and triumphs in Bellum Judaicum
The Caesarea synagogue as a constructed and bound space
Conclusion
Conclusion : synagogues in Josephus and his world
Historical implications and contextualization
The nature of the early synagogue
Synagogue terminology in Josephus
Synagogue activities
Synagogue officials
Synagogue origins
Synagogues in Jewish-Roman relations
Synagogue space
On reading history and culture in Josephus
Appendix : Essenes in the writings of Josephus
Bibliography
Modern author index
Ancient source index.

Synagogues in the works of Flavius Josephus : rhetoric, spatiality, and first-century Jewish institutions /

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