Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and Development as a Historian
Josephus,
a Palestinian Jew, authored "Bellum Judaicum, which chronicled the
Jewish revolt against Rome begun in 66 C.E. in Jerusalem, and roughly
twenty years later wrote "Antiquitates Judaicae, a study of Jewish
history from the creation to 66 C.E. In both "Bellum Judaicum and the
"Vita, an appendix to "Antiquitates Judaicae, Josephus deals with his
own role in the war. Although both works have apologetic aims, Josephus
changes his story from one work to the next. By viewing these two works
in the greater context of Josephus's life and not in isolation from each
other, Cohen traces Josephus's development as a historian, as an
apologist, and as a Jew. Cohen bases his historical reconstruction of
Josephus's participation in the war on a delineation of specific
contradictions between the two works, a survey of the scholarship on the
subject, a discussion of the literary relationship between the two
documents, an investigation of how Josephus treated his sources, and a
detailed analysis of both the"Bellum Judaicum and the "Vita.
Comprehensive and contextual, this work will be of general interest to
students and scholars of ancient Judaism and classical antiquity.
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