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Peace and War in Josephus / ed. by Viktor Kókai-Nagy, Ádám Vér.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies ; 52Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 227 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111146034
  • 9783111147864
  • 9783111146591
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 933.05092 23//eng/20231010eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Five Speeches in the Fourth Book of Josephus’ Judaean War -- Considerations on Oaths of Loyalty under Augustus in Josephus -- The “Coalition” Government of Jerusalem (66–67 CE) in Josephus’ Bellum and in Rabbinic Literature -- Die vielschichtige Entwicklung des Verständnisses der Prophetie bei Flavius Josephus und seine Dilemmata -- Coalitions and Alliances in 8th Century B.C.E. -- Jewish Troops in Foreign Wars in the Hellenistic Period According to Josephus -- Frieden bei Josephus. Esra und die jüdische Restauration in den Antiquitates -- The Greek Semantics of War and Peace: Between εἰρήνη and πόλεμος in Flavius Josephus -- Στάσις und ὄχλος in der Geschichtsschreibung bei Josephus -- The Theme of Stasis in Antiquities: Josephus’ Political Philosophy and Periodization of History -- Der Begriff ἐλευθερία im Bellum Judaicum -- List of Contributors -- Works of Josephus -- Index of Ancient Texts
Summary: Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict. But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a central role in his second book. A broader theme could hardly have been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022 at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada), Jiří Hoblík (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues: Tibor Grüll, Ádám Vér, József Zsengellér, István Karasszon, and Viktor Kókai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay (Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA). Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Five Speeches in the Fourth Book of Josephus’ Judaean War -- Considerations on Oaths of Loyalty under Augustus in Josephus -- The “Coalition” Government of Jerusalem (66–67 CE) in Josephus’ Bellum and in Rabbinic Literature -- Die vielschichtige Entwicklung des Verständnisses der Prophetie bei Flavius Josephus und seine Dilemmata -- Coalitions and Alliances in 8th Century B.C.E. -- Jewish Troops in Foreign Wars in the Hellenistic Period According to Josephus -- Frieden bei Josephus. Esra und die jüdische Restauration in den Antiquitates -- The Greek Semantics of War and Peace: Between εἰρήνη and πόλεμος in Flavius Josephus -- Στάσις und ὄχλος in der Geschichtsschreibung bei Josephus -- The Theme of Stasis in Antiquities: Josephus’ Political Philosophy and Periodization of History -- Der Begriff ἐλευθερία im Bellum Judaicum -- List of Contributors -- Works of Josephus -- Index of Ancient Texts

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Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict. But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a central role in his second book. A broader theme could hardly have been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022 at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada), Jiří Hoblík (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues: Tibor Grüll, Ádám Vér, József Zsengellér, István Karasszon, and Viktor Kókai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay (Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA). Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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