| Description |
1 online resource (lxxi, 430 pages) |
| Series |
Flavius Josephus, translation and commentary ; v. 10 |
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Josephus, Flavius.
Works. English. 2000 ; v. 10.
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| Contents |
SERIES PREFACE THE BRILL JOSEPHUS PROJECT; ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; JOSEPHUS, AGAINST APION; BOOK ONE; BOOK TWO; APPENDIX 1: MANETHO; APPENDIX 2: PSEUDO-HECATAEUS; APPENDIX 3: EXODUS NARRATIVES IN CULTURAL CONTEXT; APPENDIX 4: THE JUDEANS AND THE ASS; APPENDIX 5: THE SOURCES OF THE APOLOGETIC ENCOMIUM (2.145-286); APPENDIX 6: JUDAISM IN ROMAN DRESS?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ANCIENT TEXTS; PLACES AND NAMES MENTIONED BY JOSEPHUS; GREEK AND LATIN WORDS; MODERN SCHOLARS |
| Summary |
This is the first English commentary on Josephus' Against Apion, his apologetic treatise which rebuts Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people. Accompanied by a new translation, the commentary provides full analysis of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of the treatise, and analyses its engagement with the cultural politics of the ancient world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Text in English, translated from the original Greek. Commentary in English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Josephus, Flavius. Contra Apionem.
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Josephus, Flavius 37-100 |
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Josephus Flavius; Contra Apionem |
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Josephus, Flavius. Contra Apionem. |
| SUBJECT |
Contra Apionem (Josephus, Flavius) fast |
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Judaism -- Apologetic works.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
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Judaism
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Apologetik
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Judentum
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Judaism -- Apologetic works.
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| Genre/Form |
Greek literature, Hellenistic
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Greek literature
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Apologetic writings
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Kommentar
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Kommentar
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Quelle
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barclay, John M. G.
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| ISBN |
9789047404057 |
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904740405X |
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