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| #237282 in Books | Bristol Classical Press | 2002-06-28 | 2002-06-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.59 x5.50l,.78 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By Alex Salas|good|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Rajak's commentary on Josephus|By marks|Haven't read all of it, as it really is a reference to various sections of Josephus's works. So far, it clarifies many passages in their context and provides good bibliography.|9 of 10 people found the fol||"An excellent commentary on a true classic of history. . ." -- The Midwest Book|About the Author||Tessa Rajak is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading.
Josephus, author of the "Jewish War" and the "Jewish Antiquities", belongs equally to Jewish and to Greco-Roman history. A well-to-do priest and Pharisee at Jerusalem, he was a contemporary and chronicler of the great changes which took place in the Roman Empire in the first century AD and a controversial general in the great Jewish revolt of 66-73 against Rome. Tessa Rajak, an ancient historian versed in both Greek and Hebrew, assesses the varied source material to p...
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