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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHA SUPPLEMENT SERIES 32 Editors Lester L. Grabbe James H. Charles worth Editorial Board Randall D. Chesnutt, Philip R. Davies, Jan Willem van Henten, Judith M. Lieu, Steven Mason, James R. Mueller, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, James C. VanderKam Sheffield Academic Press Understanding Josephus Seven Perspectives edited by Steve Mason Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 32 Copyright © 1998 Sheffield Academic Press Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd Mansion House 19Kingfield Road Sheffield SI 1 9AS England Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press and Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd Guildford, Surrey British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85075-878-6 CONTENTS List of Contributors 7 Abbreviations 8 Introduction 11 Parti GENERAL ISSUES JOSEPH SIEVERS Josephus and the Afterlife 20 PER BLLDE Josephus and Jewish Apocalypticism 35 Part II ANTIQUITIES/LIFE STEVE MASON Should Any Wish to Enquire Further (Ant. 1.25): The Aim and Audience of Josephus's Judean Antiquities/Life 64 GREGORY E. STERLING The Invisible Presence: Josephus's Retelling of Ruth 104 PAUL SPILSBURY God and Israel in Josephus: A Patron-Client Relationship 172 Part III AGAINST APION JOHN M.G. BARCLAY Josephus v. Apion: Analysis of an Argument 194 TESSA RAJAK The Against Apion and the Continuities in Josephus's Political Thought 222 6 Understanding Josephus Index of Biblical references 247 Index of Authors 258 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS John M.G. Barclay, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Per Bilde, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Steve Mason, Division of Humanities, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada Tessa Rajak, University of Reading, Reading, UK Joseph Sievers, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome Paul Spilsbury, Canadian Bible College, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Gregory E. Sterling, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA ABBREVIATIONS AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums AJP American Journal of Philology AnBib Analecta biblica ANRW Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1972-) ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute BFCT Beitrage zur Forderung christlicher Theologie BibB Biblische Beitrage BJS Brown Judaic Studies BWANT Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament BZ Biblische Zeitschrift BZNW Beihefte zur ZNW CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly CIG Corpus inscriptionum graecarum CIQ Classical Quarterly CQ Church Quarterly CR Critical Review of Books in Religion CRBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies CSCT Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology HTR Harvard Theological Review JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JRS Journal of Roman Studies JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series JSPSup Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series JTS Journal of Theological Studies LCL Loeb Classical Library NovT Novum Testamentum

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