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Author Mader, Gottfried.

Title Josephus and the politics of historiography : apologetic and impression management in the Bellum Judaicum / by Gottfried Mader
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 172 pages)
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 205
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 205. 0169-8958
Contents Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One. Means and Ends; Chapter Two. Manufactured Motives: A 'Rationalist' Model of Cause and Effect; Chapter Three. The Semantics of Stasis: Some Thucydidean Strands in BJ 4.121-282; Chapter Four. Message and Medium: Further Lines of Cohesion; Chapter Five. Model and Mirror: Impression Management by Intertextual Strategy; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Passages; General Index
Summary A study of the "Bellum Judaicum". It reconsiders Josephus' intellectual affiliation to his predecessors and argues that the work's classical complexion, and in particular its distinctive "color Thucydides", are integral to its intellectual and ideological design
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166 and index
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Subject Josephus, Flavius. De bello Judaico.
SUBJECT Josephus, Flavius. swd
De bello Judaico (Josephus, Flavius) fast
De bello Judaico. swd
Subject Jews -- History -- Rebellion, 66-73 -- Historiography
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Historiography
Jews
Geschiedschrijving.
De joodse oorlog (Josephus)
Stijlen.
Invloed.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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