Author: William Reuben Farmer
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0837171520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Hengel
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this classic study of the Zealots Marlin Hengel draws on Josephus, the discoveries of the Qumran texts, the pseudepigrapha, and later rabbinic traditions, to examine the religious, social and political context which led to the Jewish insurrections of 66 A.D. This meticulous and illuminating work makes a major contribution to our understanding of the era which witnessed an eclipse of Judaism and the birth of Christianity.
Author: Monette Bohrmann
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The historiography concerning The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus has underlined the various aspects (economic, social, political, religious) of the Roman-Jewish conflict from 66 to 73 AD. A study of the Jew's vision of himself and the Other, the Roman, makes it possible to see this conflict from the point of view of the conquered. Analysis of the events which, from 6 to 66 AD, resulted in the opening of hostilities, suggests that the Jewish-Roman conflict was also a conflict of mentalities. The Jewish mentality implies a concept of war which contributed to the development of the divisions and schisms between the supporters of full-scale war against Rome (the Zealots) and the non-belligerents (Rabbi Yohanan ben Zaccaï and the Yavne School, Flavius Josephus). Furthermore, the discourse of Flavius Josephus is Jewish discourse. So far as certain options are concerned, such as his rejection of the war against Rome on the one hand, and his hatred of the Zealots on the other, a literal reading of that discourse shows that they are in the direct line of Jewish tradition as represented by RYBZ and his Yavne School. Josephus can be taken literally; the interest of his writing lies in its presentation of an internal cohesion and in the light that throws on the points of convergence and divergence in the same Pharisaic options. Finally, Josephus' text leads us to reconsider the problem of his 'betrayal'.
Author: Watson E. Mills
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1108
ISBN-13: 9780865543737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An encyclopedic guide to the interpretation and understanding of biblical literature. Though written by members of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, the 1,450 original entries by some 225 contributors are diverse in viewpoint and devoid of theological prescription. They're
Author: Wayne O. McCready
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1451403445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →* State-of-the-art essays by renowned scholars * The standard reference work in the field of early Judaism
Author: Frederic Raphael
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0307378160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world"--Dust jacket flap.
Author: Louis H. Feldman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9004332839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume consists of 23 essays that have appeared in 19 different journals and other publications during a period of over 40 years, together with an introduction. The essays deal primarily with the relations between Jews and non-Jews during the period from Alexander the Great to the end of the Roman Empire, in five areas: Josephus; Judaism and Christianity; Latin literature and the Jews; the Romans in Rabbinic literature; and other studies in Hellenistic Judaism. The topics include a programmatic essay comparing Hebraism and Hellenism, pro-Jewish intimations in Apion and in Tacitus, the influence of Josephus on Cotton Mather, Philo's view on music, the relationship between pagan and Christian anti-Semitism, observations on rabbinic reaction to Roman rule, and new light from inscriptions and papyri on Diaspora synagogues.