Josephus and the Politics of Historiography: Apologetic and Impression Management in the Bellum Judaicum »

Gottfried Mader, D.Phil. (1986) in Classics, teaches in the Department of Classics at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. He has published widely on Augustan poetry, on Seneca tragicus, and on classical historiography.

This new interpretation of Josephus' relationship to Greco-Roman historiography argues that classical motifs are selectively incorporated in BJ as a means of adjusting the reader's perspective, and are demonstrably related to the work's apologetic and polemical design.