Titre :	Josephus, Judea, and Christian origins : methods and categories
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Steve Mason (1957-), Auteur
Editeur :	Peabody, Massachusetts : Hendrickson Publishers, Inc
Année de publication :	©2009
Importance :	xx, 443 p.
Format :	23 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-1-59856-254-5
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Christianity--Origin--Historiography Church history--Primitive and early church--Historiography Jews--Historiography Josephus, Flavius
Résumé :	Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New Testament. This collection of essays focuses on threads in the first-century Jewish historian and apologist's works that are of particular interest to those studying Christianity.
Note de contenu :	Introduction / by Steve Mason -- Josephus : interpretation and history -- Josephus as authority for first-century Judea -- Of audience and meaning : reading Josephus's Judean War in the context of a Flavian audience -- Figured speech and irony in T. Flavius Josephus -- Contradiction or counterpoint? : Josephus and historical method -- Josephus and Judea -- Jews, Judeans, judaizing, Judaism : problems of categorization in ancient history -- Pharisees in the narratives of Josephus -- The philosophy of Josephus's Pharisees -- The Essenes of Josephus's Judean War : from story to history -- Christian origins -- Paul's announcement : "good news" and its detractors in earliest Christianity -- "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel" (Rom. 1:16) : the Gospel and the first readers of Romans -- Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Sanhedrin in Luke-Acts and Josephus.

Josephus, Judea, and Christian origins : methods and categories [texte imprimé] / Steve Mason (1957-), Auteur . - Peabody, Massachusetts : Hendrickson Publishers, Inc, ©2009 . - xx, 443 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN : 978-1-59856-254-5
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Christianity--Origin--Historiography Church history--Primitive and early church--Historiography Jews--Historiography Josephus, Flavius
Résumé :	Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New Testament. This collection of essays focuses on threads in the first-century Jewish historian and apologist's works that are of particular interest to those studying Christianity.
Note de contenu :	Introduction / by Steve Mason -- Josephus : interpretation and history -- Josephus as authority for first-century Judea -- Of audience and meaning : reading Josephus's Judean War in the context of a Flavian audience -- Figured speech and irony in T. Flavius Josephus -- Contradiction or counterpoint? : Josephus and historical method -- Josephus and Judea -- Jews, Judeans, judaizing, Judaism : problems of categorization in ancient history -- Pharisees in the narratives of Josephus -- The philosophy of Josephus's Pharisees -- The Essenes of Josephus's Judean War : from story to history -- Christian origins -- Paul's announcement : "good news" and its detractors in earliest Christianity -- "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel" (Rom. 1:16) : the Gospel and the first readers of Romans -- Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Sanhedrin in Luke-Acts and Josephus.