This collection of articles honoring eminent classicist and historian Louis H. Feldman brings together a host of prominent scholars from all over the world writing on such fields as biblical interpretation, Judaism and Hellenism, Jews and Gentiles, Josephus, Jewish Literatures of the Second Temple, Mishnah and Talmud periods, History of the Mishnah and Talmud periods, Jerusalem and much more.
Author(s): Shaye J. D. Cohen, Joshua J. Schwartz
Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 67
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 320
Studies in Josephus and the Varieties of Ancient Judaism......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
IN APPRECIATION OF LOUIS H. FELDMAN......Page 10
JOSEPHUS ON ANCIENT JEWISH GROUPS FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE --- Albert I. Baumgarten......Page 12
MACCABEES, ZEALOTS AND JOSEPHUS: THE IMPACT OF ZIONISM ON JOSEPH KLAUSNER’S HISTORY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE --- David Berger......Page 26
‘YOUR COVENANT THAT YOU HAVE SEALED IN OUR FLESH’: WOMEN, COVENANT, AND CIRCUMCISION --- Shaye J.D. Cohen......Page 40
WHO ARE THE KINGS OF EAST AND WEST IN BER 7A?: ROMAN RELIGION, SYRIAN GODS AND ZOROASTRIANISM IN THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD --- Yaakov Elman......Page 54
THE MEANING OF ‘FISCI IUDAICI CALUMNIA SUBLATA’ ON THE COINAGE OF NERVA --- Martin Goodman......Page 92
THE ABUSE AND MISUSE OF JOSEPHUS IN EUSEBIUS’ ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, BOOKS 2 AND 3 --- Gohei Hata......Page 102
JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS AND THE SYNCHRONISTIC CHRONOLOGY OF ISRAEL --- Chaim Milikowsky......Page 114
‘WOMEN ARE (NOT) TRUSTWORTHY’—TOWARD THE RESOLUTION OF A TALMUDIC CRUX --- Leib Moscovitz......Page 138
JOSEPHUS AND THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL --- Etienne Nodet......Page 152
LYSIAS—AN OUTSTANDING SELEUCID POLITICIAN --- Uriel Rappaport......Page 180
DOCUMENT AND RHETORIC IN JOSEPHUS: REVISITING THE ‘CHARTER’ FOR THE JEWS --- Tessa Rajak......Page 188
ADNOTATIONES CRITICAE AD FLAVII JOSEPHI CONTRA APIONEM --- Heinz Schreckenberg......Page 202
OSEPHUS ON HIS JEWISH FORERUNNERS (CONTRA APIONEM 1.218) --- Daniel R. Schwartz......Page 206
ARE THE ‘HALACHIC TEMPLE MOUNT’ AND THE ‘OUTER COURT’ OF JOSEPHUS ONE AND THE SAME? --- Joshua Schwartz and Yehoshua Peleg......Page 218
CONVERSION TO JUDAISM IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD: A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH --- Seth Schwartz......Page 234
JEWS AND GENTILES FROM JUDAS MACCABAEUS TO JOHN HYRCANUS ACCORDING TO CONTEMPORARY JEWISH SOURCES --- Israel Shatzman......Page 248
THE ANCIENT LISTS OF CONTENTS OF JOSEPHUS’ ANTIQUITIES --- Joseph Sievers......Page 282
INDEX OF SCHOLARS CITED......Page 319
