Josephus Paul And The Fate Of Early Christianity

Author : F. B. Asiedu
Publisher : Fortress Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781978701342
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity written by F. B. Asiedu and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Josephus's silences as a historian of Jewish life and of early Christianity and how his silences and omissions are similar to and different from the silences of other writers like Tacitus and Pliny the Younger, who lived in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian.

Author : F. B. A. Asiedu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978701330
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity written by F. B. A. Asiedu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flavius Josephus, the priest from Jerusalem who was affiliated with the Pharisees, is our most important source for Jewish life in the first century. His notice about the death of James the brother of Jesus suggests that Josephus knew about the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem and in Judaea. In Rome, where he lived for the remainder of his life after the Jewish War, a group of Christians appear to have flourished, if 1 Clement is any indication. Josephus, however, says extremely little about the Christians in Judaea and nothing about those in Rome. He also does not reference Paul the apostle, a former Pharisee, who was a contemporary of Josephus’s father in Jerusalem, even though, according to Acts, Paul and his activities were known to two successive Roman governors (procurators) of Judaea, Marcus Antonius Felix and Porcius Festus, and to King Herod Agrippa II and his sisters Berenice and Drusilla. The knowledge of the Herodians, in particular, puts Josephus’s silence about Paul in an interesting light, suggesting that it may have been deliberate. In addition, Josephus’s writings bear very little witness to other contemporaries in Rome, so much so that if we were dependent on Josephus alone we might conclude that many of those historical characters either did not exist or had little or no impact in the first century. Asiedu comments on the state of life in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian and how both Josephus and the Christians who produced 1 Clement coped with the regime as other contemporaries, among whom he considers Martial, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and others, did. He argues that most of Josephus’s contemporaries practiced different kinds of silences in bearing witness to the world around them. Consequently, the absence of references to Jews or Christians in Roman writers of the last three decades of the first century, including Josephus, should not be taken as proof of their non-existence in Flavian Rome.

Author : F. B. A. ASIEDU
Publisher : Fortress Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781978704268
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul and His Letters written by F. B. A. ASIEDU and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, F. B. A. Asiedu presents a new framework for interpreting the life of Paul, his letters, his self-understanding as a Christian Jew, and his uniqueness among his contemporaries and in Jewish history. He does this by reading Paul's letters in relation to certain themes in Josephus's life.

Author : Alice Whealey
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josephus on Jesus written by Alice Whealey and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Testimonium Flavianum, a brief passage in Jewish Antiquities by Flavius Josephus (37 - ca. 100 AD), is widely considered the only extant evidence besides the Bible of the historicity of Jesus Christ. In the sixteenth century the authenticity of this passage was challenged by scholars, launching a controversy that has still not been resolved. Josephus on Jesus: The Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times is a history of this passage and the long-standing debate over its authenticity. Because it may be the most quoted ancient text next to the Bible, this book not only illuminates the history of the Testimonium Flavianum through the ages, but also the general development of historical criticism in the Western World.

Author : Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170332
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity written by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by leading experts in New Testament scholarship addresses core themes in the study of early Christianity. The topics addressed include text-critical issues relating to the New Testament, the historical situation in which the earliest Christian documents were composed, early Christian rituals, historical questions concerning Jesus and Paul, and the origin and development of important theological ideas in the early Church. This volume is dedicated to Henk Jan de Jonge (Emeritus Professor in the New Testament, Leiden University) in honour of his important contributions to the field of New Testament Studies.

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Jerusalem written by Flavius Josephus and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is fatal to show pity in a time of war. Led by the mighty Titus, the Roman army besieges Jerusalem. Arrows rain over the city day and night, and battering rams assault its defensive walls. Inside, the people curse their fate, resistant to the last but maddened by hunger. After days of rebellion, al last their city falls. The citizens plead for mercy - but as the Romans march on the Temple of Masada, the most sacred sanctuary of the Jewish people, flaming torches blaze above their heads . . .

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus written by Flavius Josephus and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Flavius Josephus
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780825496226
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josephus, the Essential Works written by Flavius Josephus and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Updated, full-color edition) Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War take on a brilliant new dimension in this revised edition of the award-winning translation and condensation. Now with color photographs, charts, and maps.

Author : Marius Heemstra
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161503832
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways written by Marius Heemstra and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slightly revised version of the authoor's thesis (Ph.D.)--Groningen, Netherlands, 2009.

Author : Steve Mason
Publisher : Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josephus and the New Testament written by Steve Mason and published by Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Updated text and new maps bring this standard introduction up to date . . . "Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New Testament. Josephus tells us about the Herodian family, the temple, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. He mentions James the brother of Jesus, John the Baptist, and even Jesus himself. In "Josephus and the New Testament, "an internationally acknowledged authority on Josephus introduces this first-century Jewish historian to readers who want to begin to explore his witness to environment in which early Judaism and Christianity took shape.