Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome in Josephus’ Depictions of Past Invasions of Jerusalem

Jordan Henderson, Ph.D. (2023), Florida State University, is Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies at St. Athanasius College.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Historical Analogies in the Bellum Judaicum2 Audience3 Josephus’ Authorial Aims4 Scope and Method5 Key Themes, Motifs, and Narrative Features6 PlanAcknowledgement1 Shishak1 Biblical Sources2 Shishak in the Antiquitates3 Aftermath4 Conclusion2 Sennacherib1 Sennacherib and Hezekiah in Jewish Memory2 Biblical Sources3 Sennacherib in the Antiquitates4 Aftermath5 ConclusionAcknowledgement3 Nebuchadnezzar1 Manasseh and Josiah2 Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Antiquitates3 Aftermath4 Conclusion4 Alexander the Great1 Alexander the Great in B.J.2 Seleucid and Roman Domination3 Alexander, Romans, and Jews4 Josephus on Alexander5 Conclusion5 Antiochus IV Epiphanes1 Antiochus and Rome in Jewish Memory2 From Alexander to Antiochus3 Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the Antiquitates4 The Maccabean Revolt5 Aftermath6 Conclusion6 Pompey the Great1 Rome in the Background of the Seleucid and Hasmonean Kingdoms2 Rise and Fall of the Hasmoneans3 Rome in the Antiquitates4 Pompey the Great5 Aftermath6 ConclusionConclusion1 The Antiquitates Judaicae as Prequel to the Bellum Judaicum2 The Unity of the Antiquitates3 Collective Memory and Common Knowledge4 Characterization5 Prominent Themes, Motifs, and Narrative Features6 (Re)constructing a Typological Narrative of Defeat and DeliveranceBibliography