Review of Hollander, Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome

BOOK REVIEW AT BMCR:

William den Hollander, Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome: From Hostage to Historian. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 86. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. xii, 410. ISBN 9789004264335. $149.00.

Reviewed by Sean A. Adams, University of Edinburgh (adams.sean@gmail.com)

Preview

This book, a version of the author’s PhD dissertation at York University, provides a renewed picture of the historical Josephus by challenging the dominant view that Josephus was closely tied to the Flavian Caesars and that his works were somehow constrained by this relationship. Moreover, den Hollander attempts to identify the types of relationships Josephus might have had with the Caesars and with the people living in Rome.

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