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Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 3: Judean Antiquities Books 1–4 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Flavius Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, is unquestionably among the most important writers from classical antiquity. The significance of the works of Josephus as sources for our understanding of biblical history and of the political history of Palestine under Roman rule can scarcely be overestimated. This is the first volume published in this commentary series, which is the first...

observations. They have not, however, dealt systematically with Josephus’ literary program in its context. Much recent scholarship, by contrast, tries to interpret Josephus in the standard sense of that verb: to read each part of his narratives in relation to the whole. Even here there is considerable variation, from purely literary studies to those that concern themselves with Josephus’ first audience, in the vein of the “new historicism.” But there is a new awareness abroad that we cannot use Josephus
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