Josephus and the politics of historiography apologetic and impression management in the Bellum Judaicum - Mader, Gottfried ca. 20./21. Jh (Brill, 2000)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166 and index
Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter One. Means and Ends; Chapter Two. Manufactured Motives: A 'Rationalist' Model of Cause and Effect; Chapter Three. The Semantics of Stasis: Some Thucydidean Strands in BJ 4.121-282; Chapter Four. Message and Medium: Further Lines of Cohesion; Chapter Five. Model and Mirror: Impression Management by Intertextual Strategy; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Passages; General Index
A study of the "Bellum Judaicum". It reconsiders Josephus' intellectual affiliation to his predecessors and argues that the work's classical complexion, and in particular its distinctive "color Thucydides", are integral to its intellectual and ideological design