From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond : Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

Bay, Carson (EDT)/ Avioz, Michael (EDT)/ Henten, Jan Willem (EDT)

Brill（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 664 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004693289
• DDC分類 296.09014

Full Description

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 An Introduction to Josephus, Yosippon, and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of a Josephan Legacy in Modern Scholarship

 Carson Bay, Michael Avioz and Jan Willem van Henten

Part 1: Flavius Josephus: Context, Greek Text, and Literary Features

2 Interpreting Josephus Contextually: Composition, Audiences, Messages, and Meaning

 Steve Mason

3 Josephus and the Bible

 Erich S. Gruen

4 Ancient Jewish Court-Tales, Scriptural Adaptation, and Greco-Roman Discourses of Exemplarity: Joseph, Esther, and Agrippa I in Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae

 David R. Edwards

5 The Language of the Law: Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus' Cultic Laws and Constitution

 Silvia Castelli

6 Free Speech and Moses' Laws: The Limits of παρρησία in Josephus' Works

 Ursula Westwood

Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism

7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon

 Saskia Dönitz

8 Beyond Flusser: The Text of Latin Antiquities 13 and Sefer Yosippon

 David B. Levenson

Part 3: Sefer Yosippon: Traditions, Intertexts, and (Re-)Interpretations

9 The Beginning of the End: Yosippon's 'Aeneid' and Adso's Apocalypse

 Ruth Nisse

10 The Maccabean Mother and Her Seven Sons in Sefer Yosippon 15: Interconnections with Previous Versions of the Martyrdom and Important Motifs

 Jan Willem van Henten

11 Killing Matthias: De excidio 5.22 and Sefer Yosippon 81 (פא)

 Carson Bay

12 Yosippon as an Innovative and Creative Genius

 Steven Bowman

13 Sefer Yosippon as a Source for Hasmonean History: The Mysterious Story of John Hyrcanus and the Parthians

 Kenneth Atkinson

14 Sefer Yosippon and Sefer Masaʿot: A Reconsideration

 Daniel Stein Kokin

Part 4: Beyond Josephus and Yosippon: Reception, Afterlives, and Legacy

15 English Versions of Josephus in the Nineteenth Century: Omissions and Additions

 Martin Goodman

16 Josephus on the School Bench

 Meir Ben Shahar

17 'Josephus Proudly Presents': Figurations of Josephus Presenting His Work in High Medieval Latin Manuscripts (12th and 13th Centuries)

 Katharina Heyden

18 Between Josephus and Yosippon: Lamdan's Masada

 Yael S. Feldman

19 Schalit's Modern Hebrew Translation of Josephus' Antiquitates Judaicae: A Reassessment

 Michael Avioz

20 Zena Ayhud (The History of the Jews): The Text and Context of the Ethiopic Version of Sefer Yosippon

 Yonatan Binyam

21 The Christian Reception of Sefer Yosippon in Western Europe

 Nadia Zeldes

22 Un-writing the End: Histories and Counter-histories in the Early Modern Yosippon

 Andrea Schatz

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources

Index of Subjects