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The Image of the Jew in Flavius Josephus' Paraphrase of the Bible
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The Image of the Jew in Flavius Josephus' Paraphrase of the Bible, by Paul Spilsbury. TSAJ 69. Tubingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1998. Pp. xiv + 286. DM 148.00.
This valuable monograph is a revision and expansion of a doctoral dissertation completed under the supervision of William Horbury at the University of Cambridge in 1994. Drawing on Jewish Antiquities 1-11 to explore Josephus's construction of the ideal Jew, Spilsbury provides important insights for the study of the late first century CE and Josephus.
In a lengthy introduction (pp. 1-50) Spilsbury engages with contemporary scholarship on a number of important subjects and outlines the approach adopted in the work. The …
