Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39308-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

The contributions to this volume trace for the first time how the modern Jewish reception of Josephus, the ancient historian who witnessed and described the destruction of the Second Temple, took shape within different scholarly, religious, literary and political contexts across the Jewish world, from Amsterdam to Berlin, Vilna, Breslau, New York and Tel Aviv. The chapters show how the vagaries of his tumultuous life, spent between a small rebellious nation and the ruling circles of a vast empire, between Jewish and non-Jewish cultures, and between political action and historical reflection have been re-imagined by Jewish readers over the past three centuries in their attempts to make sense of their own times.

"The project and this volume can encourage greater awareness of the complex origins of Josephus’ controversial reputation as a Jewish priest, diplomat in Rome, military leader of the first Jewish revolt against the Romans, as an advocate for surrender to imperial forces, as a witness to the Hurban, as a citizen of Rome, and as a historian.Recommended highly for all Jewish and academic libraries." - David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, in: Association of Jewish Libraries News and Review 1.2 (2019)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schatz, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Reading and Re-writing Josephus for Modern Times

Andrea Schatz

1 Josephus in Early Modern Jewish Thought from Menasseh to Spinoza

Jacob Abolafia

2 Hidden Polemic: Josephus’s Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menahem Amelander

Bart Wallet

3 A Tradition in the Plural: Reframing Sefer Yosippon for Modern Times

Andrea Schatz

4 The “Maskil Hero”: The Image of Josephus in the Worldview of the Jewish Enlightenment

Yotam Cohen

5 Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle: 1841–1855

Sarah Pearce

6 Kalman Schulman’s Josephus and the Counter-History of the Haskalah

Shmuel Feiner

7 Kalman Schulman’s Hebrew Translation of Josephus’s Jewish War

Lily Kahn

8 In the Shadow of Napoleon: The Reception of Josephus in the Writings of Jost, Salvador and Graetz

Marcus Pyka

9 Dismantling Orientalist Fantasies and Protestant Hegemony: German Jewish Exegetes and Their Retrieval of Josephus the Jew

Alexandra Zirkle

10 Can’t Live with Him, Can’t Live without Him: Josephus in the Orthodox Historiography of Isaac Halevy and Ze’ev Yavetz

Eliezer Sariel

11 Josephus through the Eyes of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856–1943): Between Eastern Europe, the USA and Eretz Yisra’el

Tessa Rajak

12 Taking Josephus Personally: The Curious Case of Emanuel Bin Gorion

Orr Scharf

13 ‘Flavius’ on Trial in Mandate Palestine, 1932–1945: Natan Bistritzky’s Hebrew Play and Lion Feuchtwanger’s German Trilogy

Yael S. Feldman

14 Reading and Interpreting Flavius Josephus in the Vilna and Warsaw Ghettos (1941–1943)

Shifra Sznol

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Schatz, Ph.D. (2003), is a reader in Jewish Studies at King’s College London. She has published widely on language, nation and diaspora in the early modern period and the eighteenth century, and on Jewish interpretations of religion and secularism.