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Flavius Josephus' Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome
A Historiographical Analysis of Autobiographical Discourse in the Judaean War
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Eelco Glas
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2024
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The Jewish War describes the history of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 CE). This study deals with one of this work's most intriguing features: why and how Flavius Josephus, its author, describes his own actions in the context of this conflict in such detail. Glas traces the thematic and rhetorical aspects of autobiographical discourse in War and uses contextual evidence to situate Josephus’ self-characterisation in a Flavian Roman setting. In doing so, he sheds new light on this Jewish writer’s historiographical methods and his deep knowledge and creative use of Graeco-Roman culture.
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Eelco Glas, Ph.D. (2020, University of Groningen), is a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University. His research focuses on Jewish literary culture in the context of the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean.
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
3. Juni 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004697645
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Inhalt:
272
eBook ISBN:
9789004697645
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Flavius Josephus; The Jewish War; Greek and Roman historiography; autobiography; The First Jewish Revolt against Rome; Flavian Rome; Ancient Judaism; Jewish literature
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
This book will be of interest to students and specialists in ancient history, classical studies, and ancient Judaism, especially those interested in the cross-fertilisation between Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures.
