Flavius Josephus: Life of Josephus: Translation and Commentary » (Reprint)

Steve Mason is Professor and Canada Research Chair (in Cultural Identity and Interaction in the Greco-Roman World) at York University in Toronto. He has written Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees (Brill, 1991) and Josephus and the New Testament (Hendrickson, 1992), edited Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives (Sheffield, 1998), and published numerous essays on Josephus-related questions. He is general editor of Brill's ten-volume Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary.

Flavius Josephus is without a doubt the most important witness to ancient Judaism from the close of the biblical period to the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. His four surviving works - Judean War, Judean Antiquities, Life, and Against Apion - provide the narrative structure for interpreting the other, more fragmentary written sources and physical remains from this period. This is the first comprehensive literary-historical commentary on the works of Flavius Josephus in English. Steve Mason, York University, Toronto, edits the scheduled 10 volumes.