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Author : Eelco Glas
Release : 2024-05-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Flavius Josephus' Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome by : Eelco Glas
Download or read book Flavius Josephus' Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome written by Eelco Glas. This book was released on 2024-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish War describes the history of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 CE). This study deals with one of this work's most intriguing features: why and how Flavius Josephus, its author, describes his own actions in the context of this conflict in such detail. Glas traces the thematic and rhetorical aspects of autobiographical discourse in War and uses contextual evidence to situate Josephus’ self-characterisation in a Flavian Roman setting. In doing so, he sheds new light on this Jewish writer’s historiographical methods and his deep knowledge and creative use of Graeco-Roman culture.
Author : Flavius Josephus
Release : 2022-08-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Life Of Flavius Josephus by : Flavius Josephus
Download or read book The Life Of Flavius Josephus written by Flavius Josephus. This book was released on 2022-08-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can guess from the title, 'The Life of Flavius Josephus' is a biography of Flavius Josephus. He was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for The Jewish War, who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
Author : David Edwards
Release : 2023-06-05
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus by : David Edwards
Download or read book In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus written by David Edwards. This book was released on 2023-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards explores how Josephus in Antiquities adapts the scriptural stories of Joseph and Esther in unexpected ways as models for accounts of more recent Jewish figures. Terming this practice “subversive adaptation,” Edwards contextualizes it within Greco-Roman literary culture and employs the concept of “discourses of exemplarity” to show how Josephus used narratives about past figures to engage Roman elites in moral reflection and pragmatic decision-making. This book supplies analysis of frequently overlooked accounts as well as Josephus’ broader literary strategies, and shows how ancient Jews appropriated imperial historiographical conventions and forms of discourse while countering Greco-Roman claims of cultural superiority.
Author : Susanne Luther
Release : 2023-10-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences by : Susanne Luther
Download or read book Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences written by Susanne Luther. This book was released on 2023-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
