From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond
From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond
Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives
Avioz, Michael; Bay, Carson; Henten, Jan Willem van
Brill
06/2024
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List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: 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 Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus' Cultic Laws and Constitution
?Silvia Castelli
6 Free Speech and Moses' Laws: The Limits of ???????? in Josephus' Works
?Ursula Westwood
Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism
7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon
?Saskia Doenitz
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 (??)
?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 Masa?ot: 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 Sources
Index of Subjects
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: 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 Narratology and Register Variation in Josephus' Cultic Laws and Constitution
?Silvia Castelli
6 Free Speech and Moses' Laws: The Limits of ???????? in Josephus' Works
?Ursula Westwood
Part 2: Sefer Yosippon and Latin Josephus: Manuscripts and Text Criticism
7 The Hebrew Manuscripts of Sefer Yosippon
?Saskia Doenitz
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 (??)
?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 Masa?ot: 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 Sources
Index of Subjects