Table of Contents

Jonathan Edmondson: Introduction: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome
I. Josephus in the Social and Political Context of Flavian Rome
1: Hannah M. Cotton and Werner Eck: Josephus' Roman Audience: Josephus and the Roman Elites
2: G.W. Bowersock: Foreign Elites at Rome
3: Daniel R. Schwartz: Herodians and `Ioudaioi' in Flavian Rome
4: Tessa Rajak: Josephus in the Diaspora
II. The Impact of the Jewish War in Flavian Rome
5: Fergus Millar: Last Year in Jerusalem: Monuments of the Jewish War in Rome
6: T. D. Barnes: The Sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus
7: James Rives: Flavian Religious Policy and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
8: Martin Goodman: The `Fiscus Iudaicus' and Gentile Attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome
III. Josephus: Literature and Historiography in Flavian Rome
9: Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: From `Exempla' to `Exemplar'? Writing History around the Emperor in Imperial Rome
10: Christopher P. Jones: Josephus and Greek Literature in Flavian Rome
11: Louis H. Feldman: Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's `Lycurgus'
12: Steve Mason: Figured Speech and Irony in T. Flavius Josephus
13: Honora Howell Chapman: Spectacle in Josephus' `Bellum Judaicum'
14: John M. G. Barclay: The Empire Writes Back: Josephan Rhetoric in Flavian Rome

About the Author

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

Reviews

Excellent...clear and well-crafted Helen K. Bond, Journal of Jewish Studies The writers are distinguished and their contributions never less than thought-provoking Barbara Levick, Greece and Rome