Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome / edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Steve Mason, James Rives.
| Other author | Edmondson, Jonathan |
| Other author | Mason, Steve, 1957- |
| Other author | Rives, J. B. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description | xvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Josephus' Roman audience : Josephus and the Roman elites -- 2. Foreign elites at Rome -- 3. Herodians and Ioudaioi in Flavian Rome -- 4. Josephus in the diaspora -- 5. Last year in Jerusalem : monuments of the Jewish war in Rome -- 6. The sack of the temple in Josephus and Tacitus -- 7. Flavian religious policy and the destruction of the Jerusalem temple -- 8. The Fiscus Iudaicus and gentile attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome -- 9. From Exempla to Exemplar? Writing history around the emperor in imperial Rome -- 10. Josephus and Greek literature in Flavian Rome -- 11. Parallel lives of two lawgivers : Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus -- 12. Figured speech and irony in T. Flavius Josephus -- 13. Spectacle in Josephus' Jewish war -- 14. The empire writes back : Josephan rhetoric in Flavian Rome |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-359) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2005470911 |
| ISBN | 9780199262120 |
| ISBN | 0199262128 |