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Texts and Commentary

• Polybius
  • Histories
  • Walbank Commentary Introduction 1
  • Walbank Commentary Introduction 2
  • Walbank Commentary Introduction 3
  • Walbank Commentary Fragments
• Flavius Josephus
  • The Judean War
  • The Judean Antiquities
  • Life of Josephus
  • Against Apion

  

Scholarly Studies Books Pseudo-Hegesippus, trans. Wade Blocker (2005) Steve Mason, Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees (1991) Henry. St. John Thackeray, Josephus: The Man and the Historian (1926) Complete Text (PDF) Richard Laqueur, The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (1920) Original German Text (PDF) English Translation (Trans. C. Disler, 2005) (PDF) Heinrich Luther, Josephus und Justus von Tiberias (1910) Original German Text (PDF) English Translation (Trans. C. Disler et al., 2006) (PDF) Articles Benedictus Niese, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics entry on Josephus (1924) Hans Drexler, Untersuchungen zu Josephus und zur Geschichte des jüdischen Aufstandes 66-70 (1925) Original German Text (PDF) English Translation (Trans., 2005) (PDF) George Foot Moore, Fate and Free Will in the Jewish Philosophies According to Josephus (1929) (PDF) R. B. Motzo, Le due Edizioni della 'Vita' di Giuseppe (1924) Original Italian Text (PDF) English Translation (Trans. T. Leoni, 2006) (PDF) R. B. Motzo, L'Autenticità dei Documenti Romani contenuti nelle Ant. di Giuseppe (1926-27) Original Italian Text (PDF) English Translation (Trans. T. Leoni, 2006) (PDF) Emilio Gabba, The Roman Empire in the Speech of Agrippa II (Ioseph., B.I., II, 345-401) (1976-77) English Translation (Trans. T. Leoni, 2007) (PDF) J. C. Ossandón, Flavio Josefo y los veintidós libros. Nuevas preguntas en torno a Contra Apionem I,37-45, Estudios bíblicos 67 (2009) 653-694 (PDF)

Dissertations Current Listings: Rene S. Bloch, Der Judenexkurs des Tacitus im Rahmen der antiken Ethnographie: Literarische Form, historischer Kontext, Rezeptionsgeschichte (University of Basel, Switzerland) Larry Brigden, A Commentary on the Sixth Book of the Jewish War (University of Queensland, Australia) Junghwa Choi, Jewish Leadership in Roman Palestine from 70 CE to 135 CE (The Oxford University, Wolfson College) Federico Moisés Colautti, La Pascua en la obra de Flavio Josefo (Pontificia Università Gregoriana) Tessel M. Jonquière, Prayer in the Work of Flavius Josephus (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Tamar Landau, The Use of Rhetorical Techniques in The Herodian Narratives of Flavius Josephus (Oxford University, Corpus Christi College) Shawn C. Madden, Josephus's Use of the Book of Daniel: a Study of Hellenistic-Jewish Historiography (The University of Texas, Arlington) Shelly Matthews, High-Standing Women and Mission and Conversion: A Rhetorical-Historical Analysis of the Antiquities and Acts (Harvard University) Zuleika Rodgers, Josephus: Patriot, Priest, Politician. His Vita and Contra Apionem as Witness to his Concerns for Jews and Judaism (Trinity College, Dublin) Honora Howell Chapman, Spectacle and Theater in Josephus's Bellum Judaicum (Stanford University) Adam Kolman Marshak, Herod the Great and the Power of Image: Political Self-Presentation in the Herodian Dynasty   (Yale University, New Haven, CT) Tessa Rajak, Flavius Josephus: Jewish History and the Greek World (University of Reading, Reading, UK) Jonathan Philip Roth, The Logistics of the Roman Army in the Jewish War (San José State University, San José, California) Mark Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus' Judean War (University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California) David Nakman, The Halakha in the Writings of Josephus [Hebrew] (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan Israel) Lada Semenchenko, Hellenistic Motifs in the 'Jewish Antiquities' of Flavius Josephus [Russian] (Dept. of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

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