Josephus <subTitle>The historian and his society</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Rajak, Tessa</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1946-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">7:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.K</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1984</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>245tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, illustrations</extent> <extent>25cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Professor Tessa Rajak investigates various aspects of Josephus's life and thought in an effort to place him in the context of the Jerusalem high priestly aristocracy in which he grew up. She not only studies his judgments on the Jewish revolt against Rome, particularly their social and political aspects, but also explores the cultural and literary contexts of his writings. She underscores the consistency in Josephus's different version of his conduct, suggesting how each account reveals several renderings of what occurred. Furthermore, she believes that the influence of Roman imperial patronage upon Josephus's work is much less significant than historians suppose. Finally, she contends that Josephus was essentially a Jewish writer.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Tessa Rajak</note> <subject> <topic>Jews -- History -- Rebellion, 66-73</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Jews -- History -- 168 BC-135 AD</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Josephus, Flavius</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">220.95092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T338-R11</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0800607171</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12030/img-71671.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12030/img-71671.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071103.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>