One of our most important sources for all the history of this period is the Jewish historian, Josephus. Josephus himself grew up in and around Jerusalem; he claims to have been a part of the Pharisaic ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Michael Tuval's recent book, From Jerusalem Priest to Roman Jew (Tübingen, 2013), offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the works of Josephus ...

Alternately hailed as the grand chronicler of the Jewish war with the Romans and reviled as a traitorous propagandist for the Roman emperor, the Jewish historian Josephus (37–c. 100 C.E.) captured ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the uses of Josephus's Jewish War in Renaissance France, even though its popularity eclipsed ...

Until recently, no ancient historian was more widely read than the first-century soldier-statesman Flavius Josephus, the greatest source of our knowledge of the Holy Land "between the Testaments." In ...

As any parent knows, when you send a child out into the world, there’s no way to predict what twists and turns the youngster’s life might take. How much truer that is for an author, especially when ...