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| Title: Christian Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism Pages: 57-82 Type: Generic Year: 1998 Abstract: "Matthews, Christopher R. in: NTAb 43,2 (1999) 322: After a brief review of Christian historiography, the article compares Christian, Jewish, and pagan historical accounts on the following topics: the death of Agrippa I (Josephus, Ant. 19:343-350; Acts 12:20-23), rebels and ""prophets"" - Theudas, ""the Egyptian"", and John the Baptist (the Gospels, Acts, Josephus); the expulsion of the Jews from Rome in the days of Claudius (Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Orosius, Acts 18:1-2); Titus and the burning of the Temple; the Victims of Domitian's persecution; the rebellions of the Jews in the time of Trajan; the Severan emperors and the Jews; and the benediction of the mînîm and talmudic chronology. It concludes that Christian sources have value for Jewish history even though their authors were guided by tendentious prejudices. // Sievers, Joseph in: JSJ 30,2 (1999) 224: After his monumental Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, Menahem Stern intended to prepare a similar collection of early Christian literature. Unfortunately, his life was cut short before he could embark on this project. Rokeah offers some examples that might qualify for such a corpus, concentrating on those persons and events that are attested also in pagan or Jewish sources: the death of Agrippa I, Theudas, ""the Egyptian"" [Acts/Josephus]; John the Baptist [NT/Josephus]; expulsion of Jews from Rome under Claudius [Acts, Orosius/Suetonius, Cassius Dio]; Ritus and the burning of the Temple [Sulpicious/Josephus, Tacitus]; Dominion's persecution [Eusebius/Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Babylonian Talmud]; revolt under Trajan [Eusebius/various literary and non-literary sources]; the Severan Emperors and the Jews [Jerome, Orosius/Historia Augusta, others]; the benediction concerning the minim [Gospel of John, Justin Martyr, Epiphanius, Jerome/Babylonian Talmud, other Jewish sources]." Keywords: Cultural and Religious History of Ancient Judaism |