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基本説明
This volume contains a fresh English translation of Josephus apologetic treatise Against Apion, based on the new critical text established by H. Schreckenberg. It also provides the first English commentary on this treatise, with comprehensive treatement of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of Josephus' most engaging literary product.
Full Description
This volume contains a fresh English translation of Josephus' apologetic treatise Against Apion, based on new textual research conducted by the Münster Josephus project. It also provides the first English commentary on this treatise, with comprehensive treatment of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of Josephus' most engaging literary product.
Against Apion contains the most important evidence for hostility to Judeans in antiquity, as Josephus responds to both Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people, their origins and character. Josephus' robust defense of his people, with his striking account of the Judean constitution ("theocracy"), also constitutes the finest example of Judean apologetics from antiquity.
The commentary will provide a richly-documented resource for the many readers of this treatise - those who study and teach early Judaism, early Christianity, and the cultural politics of antiquity. It also offers the first "postcolonial" reading of Josephus, in his attempt to present his Judean tradition under the cultural hegemony of the Greek intellectual tradition and the political power of Rome.
Against Apion is also available in paperback (ISBN 978-90-04-24631-7) https://brill.com/view/title/23552?rskey=63tPVI&result=2.
Contents
Series Preface: The Brill Josephus Project
Abbreviations and Sigla
Acknowledgements
Josephus, Against Apion
Book 1
Book 2
Appendix 1: Manetho
Appendix 2: Pseudo-Hecataeus
Appendix 3: Exodus Narratives in Cultural Context
Appendix 4: The Judeans and the Ass
Appendix 5: The Sources of the Apologetic Encomium (2.145-286)
Appendix 6: Judaism in Roman Dress?
Bibliography
Indices
Ancient Authors
Modern Authors
Greek Words
