
Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
Daniel R. Schwartz(Author)
Mohr Siebeck (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2013
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 204 pages
978-3-16-152187-4 (ISBN)
Description
The writings of Flavius Josephus provide much of what we know about the first century CE - which witnessed the birth of Christianity, the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, and the concomitant rise of rabbinic Judaism. However, Josephus was an author, not a video camera, and what he wrote often reflects much apart from what actually happened in the first century: Josephus´ works were affected both by his literary models and by current events, and they functioned in various ways for Josephus as an individual and also as a Jew and a Roman, writing in a time of tumult and radical change. Daniel R. Schwartz argues that by building from the bottom up - first establishing the text and its meaning, then moving on to issues of Josephus´ models, sources, and purposes - we may nevertheless reconstruct, with some confidence, the events and processes of this crucial era.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tübingen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 23.3 cm
Width: 16.8 cm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-16-152187-4 (9783161521874)
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Daniel R. Schwartz
Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
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Daniel R. Schwartz
Born 1952; 1971 immigrated to Israel; 1979 PhD; since 1979 teaching at Dept. Of Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; since 1995 full professor; since 2011 academic head of Scholion - Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies.
Born 1952; 1971 immigrated to Israel; 1979 PhD; since 1979 teaching at Dept. Of Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; since 1995 full professor; since 2011 academic head of Scholion - Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies.