Josephus' Contra Apionem: Studies in Its Character and Context With a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek

528 Pages·1996·9.21 MB·English

by  Louis H. Feldman

JOSEPHUS'
CONTRA APIONEM
ARBEITEN ZUR GESCHICHTE
DES ANTIKEN JUDENTUMS
UND DES
URCHRISTENTUMS
HERAUSGEGEBEN VON
Martin Hengel (Tübingen), Peter Schäfer (Berlin),
Pieter W. van der Horst (Utrecht), Martin Goodman (Oxford),
Daniel R. Schwartz (Jerusalem), Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin)
XXXIV
JOSEPHUS'
CONTRA APIONEM
Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance
to the Portion Missing in Greek
EDITED BY
LOUIS H. FELDMAN
AND
JOHN R. LEVISON
EJ. BRILL
LEIDEN • NEW YORK • KÖLN
1996
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
JOHN R. LEVISON and J. Ross WAGNER
Introduction: The Character and Context of Josephus'
Contra Apionem 1
HEINZ SCHRECKENBERG
Text, Überlieferung und Textkritik von Contra Apionem 49
PlETER W. VAN DER HORST
The Distinctive Vocabulary of Contra Apionem 83
PER BILDE
Contra Apionem 1.28-56: Josephus' View of His Own Work
in the Context of the Jewish Canon 94
ARTHUR J. DROGE
Josephus Between Greeks and Barbarians 115
ARYEH KASHER
Polemic and Apologetic Methods of Writing in Contra
Apionem 143
STEVE MASON
The Contra Apionem in Social and Literary Context:
An Invitation to Judean Philosophy 187
ROBERT G. HALL
Josephus' Contra Apionem and Historical Inquiry in the Roman
Rhetorical Schools 229
Louis H. FELDMAN
Reading Between the Lines: Appreciation of Judaism in
Anti-Jewish Writers Cited in Contra Apionem 250
JAN-WILLEM VAN HENTEN and RA'ANAN ABUSGH
The Jews as Typhonians and Josephus' Strategy of Refutation
in Contra Apionem 271
viii CONTENTS
BEZALEL BAR-KOCHVA
An Ass in the Jerusalem Temple—The Origins and
Development of the Slander 310
RICHARD BAUCKHAM
Josephus' Account of the Temple in Contra Apionem
2.102-109 327
PAUL SPILSBURY
Contra Apionem and Antiquitates Judaicae: Points of Contact 348
MICHAEL HARDWICK
Contra Apionem and Christian Apologetics 369
Abbreviations 403
Index of Josephus5 Writings 409
Contra Apionem 409
Antiquities 416
Vita 419
Bellum Judaicum 420
Index of Passages from Ancient Writers 421
Index of Passages from Ancient Authors
(Exclusive of Josephus) 424
Index of Ancient Names 434
Subject Index 438
Index of Modern Authors 445
HEINZ SCHRECKENBERG
A Concordance to the Latin Text of Contra Apionem
2.52-113 453
PREFACE
During the summer of 1992, Louis H. Feldman directed a splendid
Seminar for College Teachers at Yeshiva University in New York
City on the topic, "The Greek Encounter With Judaism in the Hel­
lenistic Era," which was funded generously by the National Endow­
ment for the Humanities. Although the stimulating insights culled
from that seminar could easily fill another book, the present volume
originated in a less auspicious moment, in one of Louis' offhanded,
casual asides. I crammed into the corner of a notebook his comment
that the completing of the concordance to Josephus' writings, so as
to include the Latin portion of Contra Apionem, was discussed as a
desideratum at the colloquium on Josephus held at San Miniato,
Italy, in 1992, the proceedings of which were published in 1994 by
Brill (Fausto Parente and Joseph Sievers, ed., Josephus and the History
of the Greco-Roman Period: Essays in Memory of Morton Smith).
Although at the time of this seminar I had no inkling of when it
would be feasible to orchestrate such a project, in the autumn of the
same year I received the very good news that the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation had offered me a fellowship to spend the 1993-
94 academic year in Tubingen, Germany. Toward the beginning of
this unexpected period of research at the Institut fur antikes Juden-
tum und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte of the Eberhard-Karls-
Universitat Tubingen, I began to envisage the production of this
concordance. Encouraging conversations and correspondence during
the ensuing months in Tubingen led me to envisage a volume con­
taining a Latin concordance accompanied by articles intended to
facilitate further research into Contra Apionem. Louis Feldman agreed
to edit the volume with me and supplied numerous names of poten­
tial contributors; Martin Hengel deemed the volume a worthy project
and took the initiative to ensure its publication in Brill's AGAJU
Series; David Orton of E. J. Brill Publishers assured me that he
expected to publish this volume "effectively and enthusiastically."
Since the first step of this process was to ensure that the editors
of A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus would be pleased with
this development, I wrote to Professor Heinz Schreckenberg, who re­
sponded immediately and positively to the idea. What transpired next,