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Contesting Jewish History in Late Antique Christianity and Early Medieval Judaism: Flavius Josephus' Jewish War Between the Latin on the Destruction o

Contesting Jewish History in Late Antique Christianity and Early Medieval Judaism: Flavius Josephus' Jewish War Between the Latin on the Destruction o

Bay, Carson

Hardcover

Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval, Book 105

Judaism

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 14, 2026

ISBN10: 9004759107
ISBN13: 9789004759107
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 14 2026
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

On the Destruction of Jerusalem, an anonymous Latin Christian text from Late Antiquity (c. 375 CE), paraphrased Flavius Josephus' Greek Jewish War (ca. 75 CE) to reinterpret the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE) and the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple (70 CE) as proof that God had abandoned the Jews (because they had rejected Jesus Christ). No Jewish alternative to this supersessionist historiography existed for hundreds of years. Then, around 900 CE, the anonymous Hebrew Book of Yosippon rewrote this history anew, based on the narrative of On the Destruction Jerusalem. This monograph provides the first extensive comparison of these texts, showing how the Book of Yosippon biblicized, theologized, and Judaized its Latin source, overwriting the Christian narrative of late-Second Temple Judaism and underwriting a new version of that story. In so doing, the Book of Yosippon resurrected the spirit of Hellenistic Judaism, reclaiming Jewish history for the Jews in the Early Middle Ages.

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