A Companion to Josephus

Notes on Contributors viii List of Illustrations xii Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers Part I Writings 11 1 Josephus's Judean War 13 Steve Mason 2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus's Jewish Antiquities 36 Daniel R. Schwartz 3 Josephus's Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59 Steve Mason 4 Against Apion 75 John Barclay Part II Josephus's Literary Context 87 5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89 Steve Mason 6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108 Eran Almagor 7 Josephus and the Bible 123 Paul Spilsbury 8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135 Maren R. Niehoff 9 Josephus and the New Testament 147 Helen K. Bond Part III Themes 159 10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161 Zeev Weiss 11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199 Jonathan P. Roth 12 Josephus on Women 210 Tal Ilan 13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222 Erich S. Gruen 14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235 Jan Willem van Henten 15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247 David A. Kaden 16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261 Albert I. Baumgarten 17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273 James S. McLaren 18 Josephus and Halacha 282 David Nakman 19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293 Richard Kalmin Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305 20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307 Tommaso Leoni 21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322 David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin 22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345 Alice Whealey 23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356 Sabrina Inowlocki 24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368 Karen M. Kletter 25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382 Saskia Dönitz 26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus's Jewish War 390 Kate Leeming 27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402 Silvia Castelli 28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414 Gohei Hata 29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth?]Century Hebrew Scholarship 419 Daniel R. Schwartz 30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python's Life of Brian and History of the World, Part 1 440 Honora Howell Chapman Index 455