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By Gaia Lembi, Joseph Sievers

The essays during this quantity concentrate on the connection among Josephus’ Judean and Jewish id at the one hand, and his existence and writings within the context of Flavian Rome at the different. From very diversified issues of view many of the contributions to this quantity, that's the fruit of a global colloquium entitled ‘Josephus among Jerusalem and Rome’ held within the urban of Rome in 2003, make clear the complicated cultural interaction in Josephus’ writings. After reading extra normal historiographical and literary questions, the quantity proceeds to handle particular problems with Josephus’ presentation of Judaism and of old ‘data,’ inter alia concerning the struggle of 66-70 CE. a last part bargains with the interpretation and transmission of his works.

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Le traumatisme d e l'an 70 apr. J . - C . ainsi q u e les précédentes d é c e n nies agitées avaient m o n t r é q u e l'interprétation de l ' é p o q u e hérodienne fournie par les c o n t e m p o r a i n s n'était pas satisfaisante. Fort de la l e ç o n offerte par les événements successifs, J o s è p h e veut préciser à quel point l'œuvre d ' H é r o d e à fait verser de larmes et d e sang. L'imposante activité du secteur d u bâtiment, l'audience c o n c é d é e à des aventuriers d e tout b o r d p r o v e n a n t du m o n d e grec, la ténacité d é p l o y é e p o u r flatter César et les R o m a i n s et p o u r mépriser les c o u tumes nationales constituent le leitmotiv d e la narration historique de la p é r i o d e .

1 7 7 and 3 . 2 6 5 - 2 6 8 indicate that Josephus knew these Egyptian stories well at the time o f writing Antiquitates) but he did not take time to confront them properly until he wrote Contra Apionem. 6 T h e r e are reasons to doubt that the criticism took exactly the form Josephus suggests. It is hard to imagine w h y anyone would object to a claim o f Judean antiquity as such (many "obscure" nations were probably ancient in origin); and Tacitus' variant versions of J u d e a n origins all portray them as ancient.

A s c o m m e m o r a t i o n was designed in the course o f a l o n g process, it presumably omitted s o m e unwanted periods. But let us return to fourth-century G r e e c e and the histories o f A l e x a n d e r the Great. T h e anabasis o f A l e x a n d e r was an event that c h a n g e d the w o r l d and h a d an e n o r m o u s impact during its o w n time and for m a n y generations to c o m e . But the histories written during Alexander's lifetime and s o m e decades later are all lost.

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