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| Title: Ein Bild des Judentums für Nichtjuden von Flavius Josephus. Untersuchungen zu seiner Schrift Contra Apionem Secondary Title: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (AGJU) 40 Pages: XIV, 456 Type: Book Year: 1997 Abstract: Feldman, Louis Harry in: OTA 21.2 (1998), 367: "This is, with some revisions, G.'s doctoral dissertation, which was completed in 1996 under the supervision of Ferdinand Hahn at the Evangelical Theological Faculty at the University of Munich. After a survey of previous scholarship on Josephus generally and on the Contra Apionem in particular, G. examines at length Josephus' summary of Jewish theology (Contra Apionem 2.15-296) in relation to its literary context, to Josephus' overall intention, and the segment's contemporary political implications. Her study is divided into four parts: 1) an orientation to Contra Apionem in terms of its contents, genre audience, and integrity; 2) an analysis of the inner connections of the above section of the work, this viewing its structure and argumentation as a relatively independent essay within the book; 3) an extensive excursus on the section's relationship to Plato and the validity of the thesis of Joshua Amir that Josephus' presentation of Judaism is modeled on Plato's description of the ideal state; and 4) the significance of the text and the consequences of G.'s presentation. The volume closes with a German translation of Contra Apionem 2.145-296 and statistics on word usage in this periscope".
"Contra Apionem, the last known work by the Jewish author Flavius Josephus (38-ca. 100 CE), is the only direct Jewish apology, that remains from antiquity. It is of special interest to us, because in its third part Josephus undertakes to explain the main ideas and laws of Judaism and its "theocratic" constitution to non-Jewish readers. This volume gives an introduction to Contra Apionem as a whole, a German translation, and a precise analysis and interpretation of the work's third part on Judaism, especially its meaning for non-Jewish readers. This study gives the reader access to an aspect of Josephus and to a part of his important work Contra Apionem, which, to date have not attracted sufficient scholarly attention. Readership: All those interested in Classical History, History of Judaism and Antisemitism, as well as New Testament scholars. Christine Gerber, Dr. theol. (1996) in Theology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, is assistant at the Institut für Urchristentum and Antike at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin". - Brill Keywords: Contra Apionem |