Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against ApionThis volume contains a fresh English translation of Josephus apologetic treatise Against Apion, based on the new textual research conducted by the Münster Josephus project. It also provides the first English commentary on this treatise, with comprehensive treatment of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of Josephus most engaging literary product.Against Apion contains the most important evidence for hostility to Judeans in antiquity, as Josephus responds to both Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people, their origins and character. Josephus robust defense of his people, with his striking account of the Judean constitution ( theocracy ), also constitutes the finest example of Judean apologetics from antiquity.The commentary will provide a richly-documented resource for the many readers of this treatise those who study and teach early Judaism, early Christianity, and the cultural politics of antiquity. It also offers the first postcolonial reading of Josephus, in his attempt to present his Judean tradition under the cultural hegemony of the Greek intellectual tradition and the political power of Rome. |
Contents
SERIES PREFACE THE BRILL JOSEPHUS PROJECT | ix |
ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA | xiii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xv |
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
JOSEPHUS AGAINST APION | 1 |
MANETHO | 335 |
PSEUDOHECATAEUS | 338 |
EXODUS NARRATIVES IN CULTURAL CONTEXT | 341 |
THE JUDEANS AND THE ASS | 350 |
THE SOURCES OF THE APOLOGETIC ENCOMIUM 2145286 | 353 |
JUDAISM IN ROMAN DRESS? | 362 |
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accusation Agatharchides Alexandrian ancient Antiochus Apion Apollonius Apollonius Molon apologetic apud argument authors Bar-Kochva Barclay Berosus biblical century BCE Chaeremon Chaldean charge Cicero citation cited claim context contrast criticism customs death Diodorus Dionysius of Halicarnassus discussion echoes Egypt Egyptian elsewhere emendation Eusebius evidence Exod exodus fact Gerber God’s Gods Greek Gutschmid Hecataeus Herodotus Hist historians historiography honor hostility Hyksos Hypoth Hypothetica implied indicates Jerusalem Josephus Judean Judean antiquity Judean constitution Judean culture Judean laws Judean tradition king label Labow Latin Lysimachus Manetho material ment mentioned Mnaseas Molon moral Moses motif Münster narrative nation Niese non-Judeans parallel Philo philosophical Phoenician phrase Plato Plutarch political Praep priests Ps.-Hecataeus Ptolemy readers records reference reign Reinach relation religious rhetorical Roman Rome segment sense sources Spartan Spec statement story Strabo suggests Tacitus temple term Thackeray theme tion translation treatise verb virtue