Image and Imitation: Josephus' Antiquities 1-11 and Greco-Roman historiography
Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Antiquities and Ancient Historiography -- 1.1. Introductory -- 1.2. A Jewish History for a Non-Jewish Audience -- 1.2.1. Flavius Josephus and his works -- 1.2.2. The Antiquities and ancie...
| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Antiquities and Ancient Historiography -- 1.1. Introductory -- 1.2. A Jewish History for a Non-Jewish Audience -- 1.2.1. Flavius Josephus and his works -- 1.2.2. The Antiquities and ancient historiography -- 1.2.3. Josephus' intended audience for and aim with the Antiquities -- 1.2.4. Aim and outline of this monograph -- 1.3. A Handful of Histories? The Diversity of Ancient Histories -- 1.3.1. Differences in nomenclature -- 1.3.2. Differences in scope and subject matter -- 1.3.3. Different types of historians -- 1.4. Modern Scholarship on Ancient Historiography -- 1.4.1. Brief survey of seminal contributions -- 1.4.2. Ancient histories, modern discussions -- 1.5. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for History: Ways of Introduction -- 2.1. Introductory -- 2.2. 'Allow me to introduce myself…' Ways of Self-introduction -- 2.2.1. Manners of self-presentation in ancient histories -- 2.2.2. Josephus' manner of self-introduction in his histories -- 2.3. '… and my work': The Historian and his Chosen Subject Matter -- 2.3.1. The importance of choosing a proper subject matter -- 2.3.2. The ancient historians on the subject matter of their works -- 2.4. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3: A Matter Of Persuasion: The Importance of a Sound Methodology -- 3.1. Introductory -- 3.2. Ancient Literary Critics on the Nature of Ancient Histories -- 3.2.1 History 101: Historiography and related ancient genres -- 3.2.2. The importance of proper research -- 3.3. The Historian and his Personal Experience -- 3.3.1. Claims to personal experience amongst the ancient historians -- 3.3.2. Josephus' claims to personal experience -- 3.4. The Historian and the Oral Tradition -- 3.4.1. References to oral tradition in ancient historiography 3.4.2. Josephus on oral tradition and hearsay -- 3.5. The Historian and his Written Sources -- 3.5.1. Introduction: Josephus on the issue of written sources -- 3.5.2. The ancient historians on epigraphic material -- 3.5.3. The ancient historians on documentary material -- 3.5.4. Josephus' references to the Scriptures -- 3.6. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4: The Historian and his Predecessors: Josephus and his Colleagues -- 4.1. Introductory -- 4.2. Ancient Literary Critics on the Works of Specific Historians -- 4.2.1. The stylistic impact of certain historians -- 4.2.2. Various reasons for censure -- 4.3. The Ancient Historian and his Predecessors -- 4.3.1. Herodotus and Thucydides on Homer -- 4.3.2. The ancient historians on the works of their colleagues -- 4.4 Josephus on his Greco-Roman Predecessors -- 4.4.1. Josephus' criticism of the Greek historians in Against Apion -- 4.4.2. Josephus' references to other historians in Antiquities 1-11 -- 4.5. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5: A Story for the Ages: Josephus' Authorial Presence -- 5.1. Introductory -- 5.2. Everything in Order: Ways of Arrangement -- 5.2.1. Ancient literary critics on the importance of arrangement -- 5.2.2. Arrangement and chronology in ancient histories -- 5.2.3. Arrangement and chronology in the Antiquities -- 5.3. A Proper Beginning: Myths and Divine Causality in Ancient Histories -- 5.3.1. 'Once more, from the top': Beginnings and myths -- 5.3.2. Making Sense of History: Reasoning and (Divine) Causality -- 5.4. Josephus' Use of Authorial Intrusions -- 5.4.1. "As I have written…": Use of cross-references -- 5.4.2. "Allow me to explain…": Explanatory intrusions -- 5.4.3. Lessons from history: Josephus on the human condition -- 5.5. Concluding Remarks -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors -- General Index |
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| ISBN: | 3161564677 |