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| Title: The Historical Method of Flavius Josephus Secondary Title: ALGHJ 19 Type: Generic Year: 1986 Abstract: "The revision of a doctoral dissertation directed by J. Alsina i Clota and accepted in 1981 by the faculty of arts at the University of Barcelona, this investigation of Josephus' historical method first considers the concept of cause and explores how Josephus based historical events on their causes and whether he had a typology of historical cause. Next it analyzes the narrative elements that make up events recorded by Josephus as history: personalities, speeches, chronology, etc. Finally it draws conclusions about Josephus' historical method under five headings: pragmatic history, historiographic explanation, apodictic history, use of sources, and historiographic attitude and impartiality. // This investigation tries to carry out an exhaustive analysis of the historical elements which structure the work of Flavius Josephus. A Glance at the Greek and Roman historical background clarifies the shades of the historical method and concept of the author. Three chapters are to be taken into account. The first one, The theory of historical cause, revises the concept of historical cause on the human and transcendent levels. The second chapter, Ars narrandi, analyses the structural elements: personalities, speeches, chronology, geography, institutions and so on. Finally, seven personal elements of Flavius Josephus: paradox and reason, philosophical reflexions, eulogy, proems and epilogues, historiographic pointers, novelistic elements, history and drama. The third chapter presents a sort of summary on the methodology of Flavius Josephus (pragmatic history, historiographic explanation, apodictic history, use of sources, historiographic attitude and impartiality). A Bibliography and a General Index complete the investigation. It may be a useful instrument of work for scholars who are interested in the world of Flavius Josephus and in historiography, as well as a point of reference for studies which may further develop some aspects in a monographic way. - E. J. Brill" Keywords: Examination of the Complete work, Jos as historian |