Josephus: Henry Leeming: Josephus’ Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison (2003) “This volume presents in English translation the Slavonic version of Josephus Flavius’ “Jewish War, long inaccessible to Anglophone readers, according to N.A. Materskej‘s scholarly edition, together with his erudite and wide-ranging study of literary, historical and philological aspects of the work, a textological apparatus and commentary. The synoptic layout of the Slavonic and Greek versions in parallel columns enables the reader to compare their content in detail. It will be seen that the divergences are far more extensive than those indicated hitherto.” | Josephus Pleads Still |
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“As for the impiety of which Josephus accused (John of Gischala), it stems to some extent from the fact that John, like many others, gave a favorable interpretation to the Scriptural prophecies, whereas Josephus saw them as foretelling the ruin of Jerusalem”
(Louis Feldman in Josephus, the Bible and History, p. 234)
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE |
“During the Middle Ages, Josephus was the most widely read ancient author in Europe.. Josephus’ literary influence had no equals, with the sole exception of the Bible.”Flavius Josephus, a Jewish priest and Pharisee, was put in command of the national resistance in Galilee at the time of Israel’s revolt against Rome. When he was captured at Jotapata; his life was spared upon his prediction to rival Vespasian, that the Roman general would soon become emperor. Upon the fulfillment of this prophecy shortly thereafter, he was commissioned to provide his captors with a history of the Jewish people, although he initially wrote a history of the Roman-Jewish war suited for both a Roman and a Jewish audience. His works, disputed though they may be regarding accuracy, are an indispensable source on the history of Roman Judea.THEOLOGICAL
SIGNIFICANCE
“The destruction of Jerusalem was more terrible than anything that the world has ever witnessed, either before or since. Even Titus seemed to see in his cruel work the hand of an avenging God.”
Was Flavius Josephus familiar with the Apocalypse of John?
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ART & DRAMA |
- 1603: Matthew Gwinne – Nero, a New Tragedy (Drama)
- 1677: John Crowne – The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (Drama)
- 1683: Jerusalem Besieged By Titus Vespasian
- 1882: Dawson, Aeneas McDonell – The Last Defender of Jerusalem
- 1976: Avalon Hill – Siege of Jerusalem Board Game
- Stephen Watson Fullom: The Last Days of Jerusalem (1871 pdf)
“To cut her off, and on the breakers thrust ?
While thus forlorn he waits, a nearer doom
Seems in a quicksand on his course to loom :
And threat’ning cloud and breakers are forgot
In fears by fate so imminent begot.
Just thus did waiting Zion now espy
A blazing Comet burst upon the sky :
In shape a sword, sword o’er the city hung,
A portent too significant is flung
And memories of all before expire
In view of this presentiment in fire!”
BIOGRAPHIES
- 1910: Luther – Justus of Tiberias (PDF)
- 1914: Bentwich – Josephus
- 1932: Fruchtwanger – Josephus Trilogy
LATEST ADDITIONS
- The Fall of the Temple : A Study in the History of Dogma (1921 PDF)
- Josephus Audio Files
- Seth Schwartz – Josephus and His Judean Politics (1990 Limited Preview)
- Pere Villalba i Varneda: The Historical Method of Flavius Josephus (1986)
- Richard Laqueur – The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation Based on New Critical Sources (1920 PDF) “Laqueur continues to serve, justifiably and indisputably as the introduction to the literary criticism of the text of Josephus”
- Henry Leeming: Josephus’ Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison (2003) “This volume presents in English translation the Slavonic version of Josephus Flavius’ “Jewish War, long inaccessible to Anglophone readers, according to N.A. Mejerskij’s scholarly edition, together with his erudite and wide-ranging study of literary, historical and philological aspects of the work, a textological apparatus and commentary. The synoptic layout of the Slavonic and Greek versions in parallel columns enables the reader to compare their content in detail. It will be seen that the divergences are far more extensive than those indicated hitherto.”
POETRY & FICTION
“Eichorn‘s Latin commentary, following a suggestion of Herder, interprets the Book of Revelation as a dramatic poem, in the style of Hebrew Apocalyptics, depicting the events of the historical fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 68-69″
- 1824: John Galt – The Bachelor’s Wife
- 1857: “Ben Asaph” – The Moriad: or, End of the Jewish State
- 1863: The Gladiators: A Tale of Rome and Judea PDFs: Volume One | Two | Three
- 1867: James DeMille – Helena’s Household: A Tale of Rome in the First Century
- 1888: G.A. Henty – For The Temple : A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
- 1891: F.W. Farrar – Darkness and dawn, or, Scenes in the days of Nero
- 1895: Lydia Hoyt Farmer: The Doom of the Holy City. Christ and Caesar.
- 1901: H. Rider Haggard – Pearl Maiden – The Fall of Jerusalem
- 1908: Elizabeth Miller – The City of Delight
- 1910: John Carling – The Doomed City (PDF)
- 1920: Laqueur – The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation Based on New Critical Sources (1920 PDF) “Laqueur continues to serve, justifiably and indisputably as the introduction to the literary criticism of the text of Josephus”
- 2005: Noleka Yvonne Bunn – Foreshadow of Desolation: O’ Jerusalem (2005) This is a story about Jesus’ prophecy for the city of Jerusalem, the greedy Procurator, the rebellion of the Zealots and the war that was considered one of the most bloody and horrendous wars in history. Our story is seen through the eyes of Joshua, Shadrack and Hannah who survive the Jerusalem holocaust. This is a story of survival, sharing, heroic acts, heartache, love and forgiveness as commanded by Jesus.
- 2009: John Prescott – Not One Stone Upon Another (2009) “In A.D. 66, Palestine rebelled against the authority and arrogance of oppressive Roman rule. Unlikely as it was, and impossible as it was to succeed, it happened. In the spring of A.D. 70, Titus Vespasianus, son of Vespasian, the emperor of Rome, marched to Jerusalem with his legions to reestablish Roman control over the city. Titus came to the city and found an old friend who was no longer his friend. His name was Simon Gioras, and he led the Zealots, the implacable opponents of Rome. Two men, once friends, are caught up in changing times and loyalties. The war changed them both; forever. It may have destroyed them both. Not one Stone Upon Another is a novel and a story of that struggle that changed the history not only of two friends, but of the Jewish people, and therefore the world.
“(Coleridge’s) epic would have employed the historical events of the fall of Jerusalem to show the re-creation of the ancient religious constitution of man in the new Jerusalem.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Fall of Jerusalem: Coleridge’s Unwritten Epic