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In The Court Of The Gentiles Narrative Exemplarity And Scriptural Adaptation In The Court Tales Of Flavius Josephus
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Book Synopsis In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus by : David Edwards
Download or read book In the Court of the Gentiles: Narrative, Exemplarity, and Scriptural Adaptation in the Court-Tales of Flavius Josephus written by David Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards explores how Josephus in Antiquities adapts the scriptural stories of Joseph and Esther in unexpected ways as models for accounts of more recent Jewish figures. Terming this practice “subversive adaptation,” Edwards contextualizes it within Greco-Roman literary culture and employs the concept of “discourses of exemplarity” to show how Josephus used narratives about past figures to engage Roman elites in moral reflection and pragmatic decision-making. This book supplies analysis of frequently overlooked accounts as well as Josephus’ broader literary strategies, and shows how ancient Jews appropriated imperial historiographical conventions and forms of discourse while countering Greco-Roman claims of cultural superiority.
Book Synopsis In the Court of the Gentiles by : David Edwards
Download or read book In the Court of the Gentiles written by David Edwards and published by Brill. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards integrates ancient Judaism with classical studies in a new analysis of Josephus' Antiquities which contextualizes the first-century CE Jewish historian's creative adaptation of scriptural figures and stories as an outgrowth of elite Greco-Roman literary culture that prized exemplary learning.
Book Synopsis Peace and War in Josephus by : Viktor Kókai-Nagy
Download or read book Peace and War in Josephus written by Viktor Kókai-Nagy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict. But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a central role in his second book. A broader theme could hardly have been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022 at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada), Jiří Hoblík (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues: Tibor Grüll, Ádám Vér, József Zsengellér, István Karasszon, and Viktor Kókai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay (Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA). Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.
Book Synopsis Out-Heroding Herod by : Tamar Landau
Download or read book Out-Heroding Herod written by Tamar Landau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the Herod narratives of Josephus in the light of narratology and rhetoric. It offers an innovative interpretation of the rhetorical and dramatic makeup of the parallel accounts of Herod's history and suggests new ways of understanding Josephus' complexity as a historian between two cultures.
Book Synopsis Josephus in Galilee and Rome by : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Download or read book Josephus in Galilee and Rome written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both Bellum Judaicum and the Vita, an appendix to Antiquitates Judaicae, Josephus deals with his own role in the war. Although both works have apologetic aims, Josephus changes his story from one work to the next. By viewing these two works in the greater context of Josephus's life and not in isolation from each other, Cohen traces Josephus's development as a historian, as an apologist, and as a Jew. --from publisher description
Book Synopsis Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity by : Chaya T. Halberstam
Download or read book Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity written by Chaya T. Halberstam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing notion, both then and now, of the ideal impartial judge. As a work of intellectual history, the book also contributes to contemporary debates about the role of legal decision-making in shaping a just society. Chaya T. Halberstam shows that instead of modelling a system in which lofty, inaccessible judges follow objective and rational rules, ancient Jewish trial narratives depict a legal practice dependent upon the individual judge's personal relationships, reactive emotions, and impulse to care. Drawing from affect theory and feminist legal thought, Halberstam offers original readings of some of the most famous trials in ancient Jewish writings alongside minor case stories in Josephus and rabbinic literature. She shows both the consistency of a counter-tradition that sees legal practice as contingent upon relationship and emotion, and the specific ways in which that perspective was manifest in changing times and contexts.
Book Synopsis Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch by : Jack J. Gibson
Download or read book Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch written by Jack J. Gibson and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Peter cease eating with the Gentile Christians at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14) after defending his decision to eat with Cornelius before the entire Jerusalem church (Acts 11:1-18)? Beginning with a character study of Peter throughout the Gospels and Acts, Jack Gibson demonstrates that Peter is consistently portrayed as being a faithful disciple whose pre-Pentecost impetuosity is due to a lack of understanding of the message of Jesus and his post-Pentecost boldness is due to his newly-revealed understanding of this message. The historical background to the Antioch incident is considered, with special consideration given to the Jewish response to Roman rule. Peter's relationship with James and Paul is analyzed, culminating in an evaluation of Peter's motivations for ceasing to eat with the Gentiles.
Book Synopsis The Court of the Gentiles by : Theophilus Gale
Download or read book The Court of the Gentiles written by Theophilus Gale and published by . This book was released on 1672 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem from Josephus by : Alfred J. Church
Download or read book The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem from Josephus written by Alfred J. Church and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1889 Edition.
Download or read book Gentile Tales written by Miri Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful book tells of the creation and growth of one of the principal anti-Jewish stories of the Middle Ages and the violence that it bred. Beginning in Paris in the year 1290, Jews were accused of abusing Christ by desecrating the Eucharist—the manifestation of Christ’s body in the communion service. Over the next two centuries this became an authoritative, awe-inspiring tale that spread throughout Europe and led to violent anti-semitic activity in areas from Catalonia to Bohemia—particularly in some German regions, where at times it produced region-wide massacres and “cleansings.” Drawing on sources ranging from religious tales to Jews’ confessions made under torture to religious poems, Miri Rubin explores the frightening power of this narrative. She looks not just at the occasions on which massacres occurred but also at those times when the story failed to set off violence. She also investigates the ways in which these tales were commemorated in rituals, altarpieces, and legends and thus became enshrined in local traditions. In exploring the character, nature, development, and eventual decay of this fantasy of host desecration, Rubin presents a vivid picture of the mental world of late medieval Europe and of the culture of anti-semitism.
Book Synopsis Judæa Capta by : Charlotte Elizabeth
Download or read book Judæa Capta written by Charlotte Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature by : Theophilus Gale
Download or read book The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human Literature written by Theophilus Gale and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem by : Alfred Church
Download or read book The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem written by Alfred Church and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history that covers the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of the Roman Empire, the culmination of centuries of conflict in the region between the Romans and Jewish inhabitants. Church, a well-respected historian, covers it concisely but comprehensively in this book.
Book Synopsis A Jew Among Romans by : Frederic Raphael
Download or read book A Jew Among Romans written by Frederic Raphael and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews seeking a place in the dominant cultures they inhabit. Raphael brings a scholar’s rigor, a historian’s perspective, and a novelist’s imagination to this project. He goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus’s life and his singular literary achievements to examine how Josephus has been viewed by posterity, finding in him the prototype for the un-Jewish Jew, the assimilated intellectual, and the abiding apostate: the recurrent figures in the long centuries of the Diaspora. Raphael’s insightful portraits of Yehuda Halevi, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Kraus, Benjamin Disraeli, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hannah Arendt extend and illuminate the Josephean worldview Raphael so eloquently lays out.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem by : Alfred J. Church
Download or read book The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem written by Alfred J. Church and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN this story I have followed the narrative of Josephus, making many omissions but no other change of importance. It did not fall within the scope of my work to estimate his veracity and trustworthiness; but I may here say that a close acquaintance with his history will not incline the reader to put much confidence in his narrative on any point where interest or vanity may have tempted him to depart from the truth.
Book Synopsis Law and Narrative in the Bible by : Calum M. Carmichael
Download or read book Law and Narrative in the Bible written by Calum M. Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook by : Devorah Dimant
Download or read book Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook written by Devorah Dimant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Sea Scrolls Handbook presents Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions of approximately 450 non-biblical texts from Qumran, arranged according to the sequential number of the composition and the Qumran Cave. This arrangement provides straightforward access to the texts in a single volume.
