Taking Herod to Task: Source Critical and New Historical Methods of Reading Herod's Trial
For nearly three decades scholars of the first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, have debated this author's methodologies and goals in writing his Jewish Antiquities. While source-critics view Josephus as a compiler, new historians have chosen to read Antiquities as primarily a litera...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of Judaism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 403-422 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Josephus, Flavius 37-100, Antiquitates Judaicae
/ Josephus, Flavius 37-100, De bello Judaico
/ Josephus, Flavius 37-100
/ Literary criticism
/ Source criticism
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HD Early Judaism |
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Jewish War
B Josephus B Literary Criticism B Jewish Antiquities B Source Criticism |
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| Summary: | For nearly three decades scholars of the first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, have debated this author's methodologies and goals in writing his Jewish Antiquities. While source-critics view Josephus as a compiler, new historians have chosen to read Antiquities as primarily a literary work which reveals social, political, and intellectual history. A series of recent publications place these methodologies side by side but rarely coordinate them, which leaves out important insights of each group. At stake is how we moderns read Jewish history of the first century CE. I explore how parallel accounts of Herod's trial while he was Tetrarch of the Galilee in Jewish War and in Antiquities can be justified by employing source-critical analysis as a first step to explain the changes made to the text of Antiquities before turning to new historians' methodologies. We can better understand the function of Herod's trial in Antiquities through this process. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-15031212 |