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Reading the First Century: On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century

by Daniel R. Schwartz

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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The writings of Flavius Josephus provide much of what we know about the first century CE - which witnessed the birth of Christianity, the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, and the concomitant rise of rabbinic Judaism. However, Josephus was an author, not a video camera, and what he wrote often reflects much apart from what actually happened in the first century: Josephus' works were affected both by his literary models and by current events, and they functioned in various ways for Josephus as an individual and also as a Jew and a Roman, writing in a time of tumult and radical change. Daniel R. Schwartz argues that by building from the bottom up - first establishing the text and its meaning, then moving on to issues of Josephus' models, sources, and purposes - we may nevertheless reconstruct, with some confidence, the events and processes of this crucial era.
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  • Author

    Daniel R. Schwartz

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    October 2014

  • Weight

    341g

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161533310

  • ISBN-10

    3161533313

  • Eden Code

    4892793

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