Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity - History and Silence in the First Century

Informationen zum Autor F. B. A. Asiedu is a visiting scholar at Duke University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Josephus, Paul, and the Early Christians: Before and After 62 CE2. Reading Josephus's Silences: Writing Paul Out of the Jewish Archives of the First Century 3. Josephus and Martial in Flavian Rome: The Rhetoric of Silence and the Language of Derision4. Martial, Tacitus, Pliny, and Friends: Fear, Silence, Exile, and Death in Domitian's Rome5. Paul, the Jewish Past, and the Roman Contexts of First Clement

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• Authors: F. B. Asiedu, F. B. A Asiedu, F. B. A. Asiedu
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781978701328
• ISBN: 978-1-978701-32-8
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Judaism / History, Christianity, History of Religion, Judaism, Ancient Rome, Classical history / classical civilisation, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, European history: the Romans