From Jerusalem Priest To Roman Jew

Author : Michael Tuval
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Jewish historians
ISBN : 3161523865

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From Jerusalem Priest to Roman Jew by Michael Tuval Pdf

In this study, Michael Tuval examines the religion of Flavius Josephus diachronically. The author suggests that because Diaspora Jews could not participate regularly in the cultic life of the Jerusalem Temple, they developed other paradigms of Judaic religiosity. He interprets Josephus as a Jew who began his career as a Judean priest but moved to Rome and gradually became a Diaspora intellectual. Josephus' first work, Judean War, reflects a Judean priestly view of Judaism, with the Temple and cult at the center. After these disappeared, there was not much hope left in the religious realm. Tuval also analyzes Antiquities of the Jews, which was written fifteen years later. Here the religious picture has been transformed drastically. The Temple has been marginalized or replaced by the law which is universal and perfect for all humanity.

Author : Josephus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141904474

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The Jewish War by Josephus Pdf

Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and mass suicides at Masada. His account provides much of what we know about the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with vivid portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the Great. Often self-justifying and divided in its loyalties, The Jewish War nevertheless remains one of the most immediate accounts of war, its heroism and its horrors, ever written.

Author : Flavius Josephus,William Whiston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:4819167-20

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The antiquities of the Jews (Bks. 8-15) by Flavius Josephus,William Whiston Pdf

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547021858

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The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus Pdf

In The Wars of the Jews Flavius Josephus conveys significant understanding of the first Jewish Roman War, along with the upheavals that ensued afterwards.

Author : Frederic Raphael
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307456359

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A Jew Among Romans by Frederic Raphael Pdf

From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews seeking a place in the dominant cultures they inhabit. Raphael brings a scholar’s rigor, a historian’s perspective, and a novelist’s imagination to this project. He goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus’s life and his singular literary achievements to examine how Josephus has been viewed by posterity, finding in him the prototype for the un-Jewish Jew, the assimilated intellectual, and the abiding apostate: the recurrent figures in the long centuries of the Diaspora. Raphael’s insightful portraits of Yehuda Halevi, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Kraus, Benjamin Disraeli, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hannah Arendt extend and illuminate the Josephean worldview Raphael so eloquently lays out.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9355399979

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Antiquities of the Jews ; Book - XVIII by Flavius Josephus Pdf

The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - XVIII "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

Author : Jason A. Staples
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108842860

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The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism by Jason A. Staples Pdf

A new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel impacted early Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration.

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141906379

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Rome and Jerusalem by Martin Goodman Pdf

In AD 70, after a war that had flared sporadically for four years, three Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only eighty years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary consequences? This superb book, by one of the world’s leading scholars of the ancient Roman and Jewish worlds, narrates and explains this titanic struggle, showing why Rome’s interests were served by this policy of brutal hostility, and how the first generation of Christians first distanced themselves from its Jewish origins and then became increasingly hostile to Jews as their influence spread within the empire. The book thus also provides an exceptional and original account of the origins of anti-Semitism, whose history has had often cataclysmic reverberations down to our own time.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000276767

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Jerusalem and Rome by Flavius Josephus Pdf

Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Jerusalem
ISBN : 150578672X

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The War of the Jews by Lion Feuchtwanger Pdf

Joseph ben Matthias, Judæan aristocrat and Jerusalem Temple priest of the first rank, steps out into the boundless, magnificent city of Rome. He's clever, handsome, fêted by his Jewish hosts, and on a righteous mission to free three venerable old Jews wrongfully imprisoned as rebels. Joseph secures an audience with Nero's beautiful young Empress, Poppæa. Charmed by Joseph's zeal, she asks the Minister of Oriental Affairs to release the prisoners. The Minister seizes the opportunity to trade his assent for an edict guaranteed to outrage and mobilize the Jews of Judæa; Rome needs an excuse to comprehensively crush ongoing Jewish resistance. His scheme bears fruit. In the year 66 Judæa revolts. Led by canny old commander Vespasian, Roman forces prevail until only the fortified city of Jerusalem remains in the hands of Jewish rebels. Vespasian is acclaimed Emperor and returns to Rome, leaving the siege to his son Titus. Weeks drag by. Jerusalem, with its lofty, magnificent Temple, becomes to the besieging Romans a symbol of obdurate Jewish arrogance to be overthrown. Rebel commander, Roman captive and Flavian protégé, Josephus, long reviled as a traitor and Roman toady, is portrayed by Feuchtwanger with clear-eyed empathy as a complex, brilliant man whose desire to become a "citizen of the world" conflicts with his Jewish identity. It was Joseph's destiny, however, to become a fierce defender in Rome of the unique importance of Jewish contribution to humanity, and to become known as the first-century historian Flavius Josephus and the author of "The Jewish War." [adapted from a review by Annis, HistoricalNovels.info]

Author : E. Mary Smallwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004502048

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The Jews under Roman Rule from Pompey to Diocletian by E. Mary Smallwood Pdf

It is remarkable that Judaism could develop given the domination by Rome in Palestine over the centuries. Smallwood traces Judaism's constantly shifting political, religious, and geographical boundaries under Roman rule from Pompey to Diocletian, that is, from the first century BCE through the third century CE. From a long-standing nationalistic tradition that was a tolerated sect under a pagan ruler, Judaism becomes, over time, a threat that needs to be repressed and confined against a now-Christian empire. This work examines the galvanizing forces that shaped and defined Judaism as we have come to know it. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Adi Ophir,Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191062346

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Goy by Adi Ophir,Ishay Rosen-Zvi Pdf

Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the center of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures. Looking at some of the goy's instantiations in contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the United States, the study concludes with an examination of the extraordinary resilience of the Jew/goy division and asks how would Judaism look like without the gentile as its binary contrast.

Author : Meron M. Piotrkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110593358

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Priests in Exile by Meron M. Piotrkowski Pdf

Priests in Exile is the first comprehensive scholarly opus in English to reconstruct the history of the mysterious Temple of Onias, a Jewish temple built by a Jerusalemite high priest in his Egyptian exile that functioned in parallel with the Temple of Jerusalem. Piotrkowski’s book addresses a topic that is mysterious, important and anomalous: a Jewish community of mercenary priests in the (Egyptian) Diaspora in which the priestly sacrificial ritual was carried out daily over a period of more than two hundred years until the first century CE, outlasting the Jerusalem Temple by about three years. Although the book focuses on the very circumscribed topic of the parallel Temple it casts a wide net, placing the story in the context of Jewish Diaspora life in ancient times. Ancient topics and texts are brought to bear, including papyri, epigraphy, archaeology, as well as the modern literature. Piotrkowski throws new light on a fascinating episode of ancient Jewish history that is usually left in the dark.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840221321

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Jewish Antiquities by Flavius Josephus Pdf

Whiston's translation, with an Introduction by Brian McGing The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs in the two hundred years that led up to the revolt. William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, published his famous translation of Josephus' works in 1737. The modern system of chapter divisions has been added. AUTHOR: The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus (?37 - 100 A.D) represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. 'The Jewish Antiquities', his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66.

Author : Jonathan Trotter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004409859

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The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora: Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period by Jonathan Trotter Pdf

In The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora, Jonathan Trotter shows how different diaspora Jews’ perspectives on the distant city of Jerusalem and the temple took shape while living in the diaspora.