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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS: ANCIENT AND MODERN

ON REFERRING TO SOMETHING, MEANING SOMETHING, AND TRUTH: A TERMINOLOGICAL PROPOSAL --- Folker Siegert

DELVING INTO THE DARK SIDE: JOSEPHUS’ FORESIGHT AS HINDSIGHT --- James S. McLaren

JOSEPHUS’ PERSONALITY AND THE CREDIBILITY OF HIS NARRATIVE --- Uriel Rappaport

MASADA IN THE 1ST AND 21ST CENTURIES --- Honora Howell Chapman

JOSEPHUS’ ATTEMPT TO REORGANIZE JUDAISM FROM ROME --- Etienne Nodet

PART TWO JOSEPHUS’ USE OF SOURCES

COMPOSITION AND SOURCES IN ANTIQUITIES 18: THE CASE OF PONTIUS PILATE --- Daniel R. Schwartz

JOSEPHUS AND STRABO: THE REASONS FOR A CHOICE --- Alessandro Galimberti

GESCHICHTSFORSCHUNG ALS APOLOGIE: JOSEPHUS UND DIE NICHT-GRIECHISCHEN HISTORIKER IN CONTRA APIONEM --- Niclas Förster

PART THREE JOSEPHUS AS A SOURCE

NOBLE DEATH IN JOSEPHUS: JUST RHETORIC? --- Jan Willem van Henten

ESSENES AND LURKING SPARTANS IN JOSEPHUS’ JUDEAN WAR: FROM STORY TO HISTORY --- Steve Mason

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PHILOSOPHY MAKE? THE THREE SCHOOLS AS A RHETORICAL DEVICEIN JOSEPHUS --- Gunnar Haaland

JOSEPHUS AND ANTIPAS: A CASE STUDY OF JOSEPHUS’ NARRATIVES ON HEROD ANTIPAS --- Morten Hørning Jensen

JOSEPHUS AND THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON ON HEROD’S MESSIANIC ASPIRATIONS: AN INTERPRETATION --- Samuel Rocca

JOSEPHUS AS A SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC HISTORY: PROBLEMS AND APPROACHES --- Jack Pastor

PART FOUR JOSEPHUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

NOBLE DEATHS AT GAMLA AND MASADA? A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF JOSEPHUS’ ACCOUNTS OF JEWISH RESISTANCE IN LIGHT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES --- Kenneth Atkinson

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUMINATION OF JOSEPHUS’ NARRATIVE OF THE BATTLES AT YODEFAT AND GAMLA --- Mordechai Aviam

JOSEPHUS AND ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE CITIES OF THE GALILEE --- Zeev Weiss

APPENDIX A SPECIAL LECTURE TO MARK THE HOSTING OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPHUS COLLOQUIUM IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES

ROBERT TRAILL: THE FIRST IRISH CRITIC OF WILLIAM WHISTON’S TRANSLATION OF JOSEPHUS (A SPECIAL LECTURE TO MARK THE HOSTING OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPHUS COLLOQUIUM IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) --- Gohei Hata

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS