Year 1 by Susan Buck-morss

Author:Susan Buck-morss [Buck-Morss, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

33. Beard, “The Triumph of Flavius Josephus,” pp. 544–545. Mason concurs: “Jews have traditionally viewed him as a traitor to the Jewish people”; he notes that Josephus’ name “does not appear in either version of the voluminous Talmud, which was finally edited in the fifth and sixth centuries, or any other early Jewish writing”—the first reference to him in Judaic texts is in the sixteenth century. Although a Hebrew version of a selection of his texts (known as the Josippon) was used extensively by Jewish commentators in the Middle Ages, his “perceived cowardice” has prevented him from being embraced by Zionist historians. Steve Mason, Josephus and the New Testament, 2nd ed. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005), pp. 25–26. This has been true despite the value of Josephus’ own version of Jewish history (Antiquitates Judaeicae), a 20-volume history of the Jews from biblical times to the first-century present, and despite the fact that one of Josephus’ texts, Against Apion (Contra Apionem), defended Judaic monotheistic faith, arguing in tandem with Philo of Alexandria for the superiority of the ethics and philosophy contained within the Torah. For Josephus’ influence on Byzantine Christian culture, see the article by Steven Bowman, “Josephus in Byzantium,” in Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity, ed. Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987), pp. 362–385.

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