The contributions to this volume trace for the first time how the modern Jewish reception of Josephus, the ancient historian who witnessed and described the des

Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture offers pioneering studies of the intense and varied reception of the historian's work in scholarship, religious and political

"An audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gent

Josephus (A.D. 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is the earliest systematic commentator on the Bible, as well as one of the f