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Ausgabe:

Oktober/2020

Spalte:

919–920

Kategorie:

Altertumswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Swoboda, Sören

Titel/Untertitel:

Leben nach dem Tod. Josephus im Kontext antiker Geschichtsschreibung.

Verlag:

Stuttgart: Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk 2019. 166 S. = Stuttgarter Bibelstudien, 245. Kart. EUR 28,00. ISBN 978-3-460-03454-9.

Rezensent:

Jan Willem van Henten

This monograph is closely connected with Sören Swoboda’s major study »Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus« (2014, see ThLZ 3/141 [2016], 185–187). It ultimately goes back to the so far unpublished final chapter of his 2012 dissertation. It confirms S.’s argument in his study from 2014 about Josephus’ aims and his intended audience in the Jewish War and the Antiquities. It focuses on the pas-sages about the afterlife in connection with the Jewish attitude to­wards death as presented by Josephus. S. offers an encompassing discussion of the relevant passages in Josephus, which he compares, after a detailed survey, with the relevant Graeco-Roman passages about the afterlife, starting with Herodotus and ending with Cassius Dio (who died after 229 C. E.). He also offers brief ...


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