Josephus And Jewish History in Flavian Rome And Beyond

From the September 2003 international colloquium Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome, held in Rome 23 papers consider Flavius Josephus (37-100) as an author rather than merely as a quarry for information about the subjects of his histories. They cover historiography, literary questions, Josephus and Judaism, histories and history, and translation and transmission. Among specific topics are the impotence of Titus or Josephus' Bellum Judaicum as an example of pathetic historiography, Josephus and Greek poetry, his description of the Essenian morning prayer, whether Contra Apionem mirrors Domitian's crushing of the Stoic Opposition, and the Latin translation of his Antiquitates . Three of the essays are in German. There is no subject index. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Joseph Sievers, Ph.D. (1981) in Ancient History, Columbia University, is Professor of Jewish History and Literature of the Hellenistic Period at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. His publications include Synopsis of the Greek Sources for the Hasmonean Period (Rome, 2001).Gaia Lembi holds a doctorate in Jewish Studies (2003) from the University of Turin and is pursuing a second one in Ancient History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In 2004-2005 she was awarded a Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University.