Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
List of Illustrations xii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction 1Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers
Part I Writings 11
1 Josephus’s Judean War 13Steve Mason
2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities 36Daniel R. Schwartz
3 Josephus’s Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59Steve Mason
4 Against Apion 75John Barclay
Part II Josephus’s Literary Context 87
5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89Steve Mason
6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108Eran Almagor
7 Josephus and the Bible 123Paul Spilsbury
8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135Maren R. Niehoff
9 Josephus and the New Testament 147Helen K. Bond
Part III Themes 159
10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161Zeev Weiss
11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199Jonathan P. Roth
12 Josephus on Women 210Tal Ilan
13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222Erich S. Gruen
14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235Jan Willem van Henten
15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247David A. Kaden
16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261Albert I. Baumgarten
17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273James S. McLaren
18 Josephus and Halacha 282David Nakman
19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293Richard Kalmin
Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305
20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307Tommaso Leoni
21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345Alice Whealey
23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356Sabrina Inowlocki
24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368Karen M. Kletter
25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382Saskia Dönitz
26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus’s Jewish War 390Kate Leeming
27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402Silvia Castelli
28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414Gohei Hata
29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth-Century Hebrew Scholarship 419Daniel R. Schwartz
30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 440Honora Howell Chapman
Index 455