• Prologue
• The Roman Emperor Gaius (Caligula)'s attempt to erect his statue in the Temple of Jerusalem
• The causes of the Jewish War according to Josephus
• Testimonium flavianum
• The geographical excursus in Josephus
• Contra Apionem 1.28-56 : an essay on Josephus' view of his own work in the context of the Jewish Canon
• The essenes in Philo and Josephus
• Josephus and Jewish Apocalypticism
• Was hat Josephus über die Synagoge zu sagen?
• The Jews in Alexandria in 38-41 CE
• Philo as a Polemist and a political apologist : an investigation of his two historical treatises against Flaccus and the Embassy to Gaius
• Der Konflikt zwischen Gaius Caligula und den Juden über die Aufstellung einer Kaiserstatue im Tempel von Jerusalem
• Bibliography
• Per Bilde's place in research on Josephus (Steve Mason)
• Messianic figures in the works of Josephus and their impact on per Bilde's understanding of the historical Jesus (Mogens M?ller)
• Bibliographical references : places of first publication of per Bilde's articles.

Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus are amongst the most influential ancient writers. In his long scholarly career, Per Bilde (1939-2014) published various essays, studies and articles examining early Judaism and the historical Jesus from the angle of the work of Philo and Josephus. Many of the articles contain in-depth treatment of primary sources, and thus are of great value for scholars to come. The studies in this volume have yet been compiled by Per Bilde himself. They are now edited posthumously with contributions from Steve Mason (Groningen) and Mogens Muller (Copenhagen) responding to Bilde's work.
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• Notes on Contributors viii List of Illustrations xii Abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 Honora Howell Chapman and Zuleika Rodgers Part I Writings 11
• 1 Josephus s Judean War 13 Steve Mason
• 2 Many Sources but a Single Author: Josephus s Jewish Antiquities 36 Daniel R. Schwartz
• 3 Josephus s Autobiography (Life of Josephus) 59 Steve Mason
• 4 Against Apion 75 John Barclay Part II Josephus s Literary Context 87
• 5 Josephus as a Roman Historian 89 Steve Mason
• 6 Josephus and Greek Imperial Literature 108 Eran Almagor
• 7 Josephus and the Bible 123 Paul Spilsbury
• 8 Josephus and Philo in Rome 135 Maren R. Niehoff
• 9 Josephus and the New Testament 147 Helen K. Bond Part III Themes 159
• 10 Josephus and the Archaeology of Galilee 161 Zeev Weiss
• 11 Josephus as a Military Historian 199 Jonathan P. Roth
• 12 Josephus on Women 210 Tal Ilan
• 13 The Hasmoneans in Josephus 222 Erich S. Gruen
• 14 Herod the Great in Josephus 235 Jan Willem van Henten
• 15 The Herodian Temple in Josephus 247 David A. Kaden
• 16 Josephus and the Jewish Sects 261 Albert I. Baumgarten
• 17 Josephus and the Priesthood 273 James S. McLaren
• 18 Josephus and Halacha 282 David Nakman
• 19 Josephus and Rabbinic Literature 293 Richard Kalmin Part 1V Transmission and Reception History 305
• 20 The Text of the Josephan Corpus: Principal Greek Manuscripts, Ancient Latin Translations, and the Indirect Tradition 307 Tommaso Leoni
• 21 The Ancient Latin Translations of Josephus 322 David B. Levenson and Thomas R. Martin
• 22 The Testimonium Flavianum 345 Alice Whealey
• 23 Josephus and Patristic Literature 356 Sabrina Inowlocki
• 24 The Christian Reception of Josephus in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 368 Karen M. Kletter
• 25 Sefer Yosippon (Josippon) 382 Saskia Donitz
• 26 The Slavonic Version of Josephus s Jewish War 390 Kate Leeming
• 27 Josephus in Renaissance Italy 402 Silvia Castelli
• 28 A Note on English Translations of Josephus from Thomas Lodge to D. S. Margoliouth 414 Gohei Hata
• 29 From Masada to Jotapata: On Josephus in Twentieth ]Century Hebrew Scholarship 419 Daniel R. Schwartz
• 30 Josephus Comicus in Monty Python s Life of Brian and History of the World,
• Part 1 440 Honora Howell Chapman Index 455.
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A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. * Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus * Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including reception history * Features contributions from 29 eminent scholars in the field from four continents * Reveals important insights into the Jewish and Roman worlds at the moment when Christianity was gaining ground as a movement.
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• Einleitung
• Entstehung, Quellen und Charakter des Sefer Yosippon
• Zur Frage der jüdischen Historiographie im Mittelalter
• Historisches Interesse und Geschichtsbewusstsein
• Vorhaben
• Text- und Überlieferungsgeschichte des Sefer Yosippon
• Textgeschichte von Redaktion A bis C
• Flussers Edition
• Redaktion A
• Handschriftliche Überlieferung
• Fragmente der Kairoer Geniza
• Vollständige Handschriften
• Interpolationen
• Darius
• Kleopatra
• Testimonium Flavianum
• Daniel
• Sefer Yosippon im Sefer ha-Zikhronot (MS Oxford Heb. d 11)
• Redaktion B
• Neue Textzeugen
• Interpolationen
• Exkurs : das Kapitel zu Alexander im Sefer Yosippon
• Interpolationen zu Alexander
• Redaktion C
• Neue Textzeugen und Datierung
• Mosqonis Redaktion
• Das kulturelle Umfeld des Yehuda Mosqoni
• Sefer Yosippon und die arabischen Übersetzungen
• Die judaeo-arabische Übersetzung
• Das arabische Buch der Makkabäer
• Die Übersetzung in arabischen Buchstaben
• Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des hebräischen Sefer Yosippon
• Rezeptionsgeschichte des arabischen Sefer Yosippon
• Rezeption bei den Juden
• Rezeption bei den Kopten
• Rezeption bei den Muslimen
• Ergebnisse
• Sefer Yosippon in der Exegese
• Bibel-und Talmudexegese
• Sạrfat und Ashkenaz : Rashi und seine Schüler
• Sefarad und die Provence : Abraham Ibn Ezra und David Qimhị
• Sefarad II : Nahṃanides
• Orient : Samuel ben Nissim Masnut
• Provence II : Josef Ibn Kaspi
• Byzanz : Tovia ben Eliezer
• Italien : Immanuel ben Salomo
• Ergebnisse
• Sefer Yosippon in Piyyut und Piyyut-Kommentaren
• Salomo ben Yehuda ha-Bavli
• Gershom ben Yehuda Me'or ha-Gola und Simon bar Isaak
• Josef ben Salomo aus Carcassonne
• Menahẹm bi-Rabbi Makhir
• Kommentare zu Eleazar bi-Rabbi Qallir
• Ergebnisse
• Exkurs : Zusätze zu Ester in der Septuaginta
• Sefer Yosippon und die mittelalterlichen narrativen Texte
• Sefer Yosippon und die Narrative zu Hạnukka
• Sefer Yosippon und Seder Olam
• Die Bearbeitung von Abraham Ibn Daud
• Sefer Yosippon und Divre Malkhe Yisra'el
• Sefer Yosippon und Zikhron Divre Romi
• Sefer Yosippon und Sefer ha-Qabbala
• Ibn Dauds Vorlage
• Sefer Yosippon und die Berichte zum Ersten Kreuzzug
• Forschungsprobleme
• Märtyrerdarstellungen im Sefer Yosippon
• Sefer Yosippon und die Kreuzzugsberichte
• Der Lohn des Märtyrers und das große Licht
• Das Tempelopfer
• Der Bericht des Salomo bar Simson
• Fazit
• Anhang
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Handschriften
• Quellen
• Sekundärliteratur
• Stellenregister
• Hebräische Bibel
• Apokryphen und Septuaginta
• Neues Testament
• Rabbinische Literatur
• Mittelalterliche Literatur
• Griechisch-römische Literatur
• Handschriftenregister
• Autorenregister
• Personen-, Sach- und Ortsregister.

• List of Abbreviations
• Note on Translations and Editions
• Chapter 1: Theology, Josephus, and Understandings of Ancient Judaism
• Chapter 2: Fate, Free Will and Ancient Jewish Types of Compatibilism
• Chapter 3: Afterlives and Noble Deaths
• Chapter 4: Torah, Tradition, and Innovation
• Chapter 5: Josephus and Judaism after 70 CE
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Essenes and Resurrection according to Hippolytus
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Jonathan Klawans's Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism cuts against the grain of rabbinic studies to establish the value of Flavius Josephus's descriptions of the religious ideas of various Jewish sects for reconstructing the world of ideas (the theologies) at play in early Judaism. It is intended as a response to the prevalent approach to the study of early Judaism, which focuses on legal or halakhic issues rather than matters of religious belief. Klawans illuminates Josephus's description of early Jewish sects (the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes) against distinct bodies of literature including Rabbinic sources, Qumran scrolls, and wisdom literature, especially Ben Sira. He is also concerned to show how various beliefs operate in connection with historical events, from the Hasmonean rebellion to after the destruction of the Temple. He demonstrates, for example, that beliefs about resurrection may have been less a reaction to social or historical circumstances than scholars have claimed and that the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE may not have created such a severe theological crises as previously thought. He provides alternative explanations for beliefs about the afterlife and shows that the reaction to the Temple's loss may have been more easily dealt with in terms of preexisting theological ideas and analogies. In each case, Klawans brings to the forefront Josephus's own views about these matters and shows how they are important for a more balanced assessment of the history of early Judaism.
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Former students, colleagues and friends of the eminent classicist and historian Prof. Louis H. Feldman are pleased to honor him with a Jubilee volume. While Prof. Feldman has long been considered an outstanding scholar of Josephus, his scholarly interests and research interests pertain to almost all aspects of the ancient world and Jews. The articles in "Judaism in the Ancient World: Louis H. Feldman Jubilee Volume" relate to the fields studies by Prof. Feldman such 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. The contributors to this volume are among the most prominent in their fields and hail from the international scholarly community.
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Josephus (AD 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is one of the earliest systematic commentators on the Bible, as well as one of the foremost historians of the beginning of the Christian era. Politically, Josephus was pro-Roman, and although he had no sympathy for extreme Jewish nationalism, he was a zealous defender of Jewish religion and culture. This text examines the principles that guided Josephus in his understanding of the Bible, investigating his creative contribution in the writing of biblical accounts. The study evaluates Josephus as a historian and demonstrates the originality and consistency of his work as an author.
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This volume consists of 23 essays which deal with the relations between the Jews and non-Jews during the period from Alexandra the Great to the end of the Roman Empire. Topics covered include: Josephus; Judaism and Christianity; Latin literature and the Jews; and Romans in Rabbinic literature.
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