Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome

Jonathan Edmondson is Associate Professor, York University, TorontoSteve Mason is Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction, York University, TorontoJames Rives is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto

• Introduction: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome ; I. JOSEPHUS IN THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF FLAVIAN ROME ; 1. Josephus' Roman Audience: Josephus and the Roman Elites ; 2. Foreign Elites at Rome ; 3. Herodians and 'Ioudaioi' in Flavian Rome ; 4. Josephus in the Diaspora ; II. THE IMPACT OF THE JEWISH WAR IN FLAVIAN ROME ; 5. Last Year in Jerusalem: Monuments of the Jewish War in Rome ; 6. The Sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus ; 7. Flavian Religious Policy and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple ; 8. The 'Fiscus Iudaicus' and Gentile Attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome ; III. JOSEPHUS: LITERATURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN FLAVIAN ROME ; 9. From 'Exempla' to 'Exemplar'? Writing History around the Emperor in Imperial Rome ; 10. Josephus and Greek Literature in Flavian Rome ; 11. Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's 'Lycurgus' ; 12. Figured Speech and Irony in T. Flavius Josephus ; 13. Spectacle in Josephus' 'Bellum Judaicum' ; 14. The Empire Writes Back: Josephan Rhetoric in Flavian Rome

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