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| Title: Josephus' Contra Apionem. Studies in its Character and Context with a Latin Concordance to the Portion Missing in Greek Secondary Title: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (AGJU) 34 Type: Edited Book Year: 1996 Abstract: Begg, Christopher T. in OTA 20.2 (1997), 349: "Contra Apionem is Josephus' last writing. The 14 essays making up this volume address various aspects of the work: its text, vocabulary, purpose and rhetorical strategy, sources, individual passages, and relation to his other writing's Each article comes with its own bibliography. The volume likewise provides a concordance (pp. 453-517), compiled by H. Schreckenberg, to that portion of contra Apionem which is only preserved in Latin (2.52-113). Facilitating use of the volume are a list of abbreviations, plus indexes to Josephus' writings, ancient writings, ancient authors exclusive of Josephus, subjects, and modern authors".
"After a 48-page introduction by Levison and J. R. Wagner to the character and context of Josephus' Contra Apionem, this volume presents papers by H. Schreckenberg on its text, transmission, and textual criticism; P. W. van der Horst on its distinctive vocabulary; P. Bilde on Josephus' view of his own work in the context of the Jewish canon (1:28-56); A. J. Droge on Josephus between Greeks and barbarians; A. Kasher on polemic and apologetic methods of writing; S. Mason on the work on historical inquiry in the Roman rhetorical schools; Feldman on reading between the lines - appreciation of Judaism in anti-Jewish writers cited in the work; J.-W. van Henten and R. Abusch on the Jews as Typhonians and Josephus' strategy of refutation; B. Bar-Kochva on an ass in the Jerusalem Temple - the origins and development of the slander, R. Bauckham on the account of the Temple in 2:102-109; P. Spilsbury on points of contact with Josephus' Antiquities; and M. Hardwick on the work and Christian apologetics. Also included is Schreckenberg's concordance to the Latin text of Contra Apionem 2:52-113". Keywords: Contra Apionem |