Saturday, October 14, 2023

Kókai-Nagy & Vér (eds.), Peace and War in Josephus (De Gruyter)

NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER:
Peace and War in Josephus

Edited by: Viktor Kókai-Nagy and Ádám Vér

Volume 52 in the series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111146591

eBook
Published: September 5, 2023
ISBN: 9783111146591

Hardcover
Published: September 5, 2023
ISBN: 9783111146034

About this book

Josephus Flavius’s life was defined by the Jewish war against Rome, about which he wrote his first book as a friend of the imperial family, enjoying the benefits of an end to the conflict. But this dichotomy between war and peace defined not only the life of our author but also the history of all peoples in Late Antiquity, so it is not surprising that war and peace also play a central role in his second book.

A broader theme could hardly have been chosen for this volume, which naturally brought with it the diversity of the studies it contains. At a conference in May 2022 at Selye János University in Komárom – "Peace and War in Josephus" – a distinguished, international group of scholars took up this theme, including Tal Ilan (Israel), Steve Mason (Canada), Jiří Hoblík (Czech Republic), and five Hungarian colleagues: Tibor Grüll, Ádám Vér, József Zsengellér, István Karasszon, and Viktor Kókai-Nagy. Their papers in English or German are complemented by three additional papers from Carson Bay (Switzerland), Marin Meiser (Germany), and David R. Edwards (USA). Together, their work ranges from the historical and literary context to the political and philosophical thought of the author.

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