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Josephus's Interpretation of the Bible »

Authors: Louis H. Feldman
ISBN-13: 9780520208537, ISBN-10: 0520208536
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: January 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Louis H. Feldman

Louis H. Feldman is Professor of Classics at Yeshiva University. His books include Josephus and Modern Scholarship, 1937-1980 (1984), Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and
Interactions from Alexander to Justinian (1993), and Studies in Hellenistic Judaism (1996).

Book Synopsis

"Louis Feldman has delivered a hurricane. . . . This book is essential reading for anyone who plans to use Josephus to illuminate a biblical text, early Judaism, the background to early Christianity, or the classical world in general. "—Steve Mason, York University

"The work stands as a testament to Professor Feldman's lifetime of research on Josephus. No one else could write this volume, a tour de force."—Gregory Sterling, Notre Dame University

	Preface
Pt. 1	General Considerations	1
1	Josephus's Historiographical Predecessors	3
2	Josephus as Rewriter of the Bible	14
3	The Qualities of Biblical Heroes	74
4	Josephus as Apologist to Non-Jews and to Jews	132
5	Stylistic and Other Changes	163
Pt. 2	Josephus's Biblical Portraits	221
6	Abraham	223
7	Isaac	290
8	Jacob	304
9	Joseph	335
10	Moses	374
11	Joshua	443
12	Samson	461
13	Samuel	490
14	Saul	509
15	David	537
16	Solomon	570
17	Daniel	629
	Conclusion	659
	Abbreviations	671
	Bibliography	675
	Indexes	703
	Passages from Ancient Writers	703
	General Index	793
	Greek, Latin, and Hebrew and Aramaic Words	811
	Modern Scholars	831