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Ausgabe:

März/2016

Spalte:

185-187

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Swoboda, Sören

Titel/Untertitel:

Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus. Die Intentionen von Bellum und Antiquitates im Kontext griechisch-römischer Historiographie.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014. XVI, 601 S. = Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 158. Lw. EUR 174,00. ISBN 978-3-16-152828-6.

Rezensent:

Jan Willem van Henten

Sören Swoboda is DFG researcher at the Theological Faculty of Jena. This monograph concerns his adapted dissertation submitted at Jena in 2012. One of its aims is to point out how Josephus articu-lates the theme of death in comparison to Greek and Roman historians, starting with Herodotus and ending with Cassius Dio (who died after 229 C. E.).
S.’s study is a content-based survey of all the passages in Josephus’ Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities that are relevant for the four motifs of death and dying in a military context discussed in chapters 2–5. The introductory chapter explains S.’s motivation, purpose and methodology. First S. searches for corresponding motifs in a wide selection of Graeco-Roman histories (see pp. 18–25). He surveys the occurrence ...


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