Sepher Yosippon A Tenth Century History of Ancient Israel 1st Edition by Steven Bowman 0814349447 9780814349441
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ISBN 10: 0814349447
ISBN 13: 9780814349441
Author: Steven B. Bowman
The seminal medieval history of the Second Commonwealth period of ancient Jewish history. Sepher Yosippon was written in Hebrew by a medieval historian noted by modern scholars for its eloquent style. This is the first known chronicle of Jewish history and legend from Adam to the destruction of the Second Temple, this is the first known text since the canonical histories written by Flavius Josephus in Greek and later translated by Christian scholars into Latin. Sepher Yosippon has been cited and referred to by scholars, poets, and authors as the authentic source for ancient Israel for over a millennium, until overshadowed by the twentieth-century Hebrew translations of Josephus. It is based on Pseudo Hegesippus’s fourth-century anti-Jewish summary of Josephus’s Jewish War. However, the anonymous author [a.k.a. Joseph ben Gurion Hacohen] also consulted with the Latin versions of Josephus’s works available to him. At the same time, he included a wealth of Second Temple literature as well as Roman and Christian sources. This book contains Steven Bowman’s translation of the complete text of David Flusser’s standard Hebrew edition of Sepher Yosippon, which includes the later medieval interpolations referring to Jesus. The present English edition also contains the translator’s introduction as well as a preface by the fifteenth-century publisher of the book. The anonymous author of this text remains unique for his approach to history, his use of sources, and his almost secular attitude, which challenges the modern picture of medieval Jews living in a religious age. In his influential novel, A Guest for the Night, the Nobel Laureate author Shmuel Yosef Agnon emphasized the importance of Sepher Yosippon as a valuable reading to understand human nature. Bowman’s translation of Flusser’s notes, as well as his own scholarship, offers a well-wrought story for scholars and students interested in Jewish legend and history in the medieval period, Jewish studies, medieval literature, and folklore studies.
Table of contents:
1. Table of Nations
2. Antiquities of Italia
3. Conquest of Babylon
4. Daniel in the Lion’s Den
5. Daniel, Bel, and the Dragon
6. The Story of Zerubavel
7. The Sacred Fire
8. Death of Cyrus
9. Gesta Mordecai and Esther
10. Alexander in Jerusalem
11. Gesta Heliodorus (Eliodorus)
12. Translation of the Septuagint
13. The Decrees of Antiochus
14. Death of Elazar
15. Death of the Mother and Her Seven Sons
16. The Times of Mattathias (Matityahu ben Yoḥanan) the Priest
17. Early Days of Yehudah (Judah) the Maccabee
18. Death of Antiochus the Wicked and the Dedication of the House of God
19. Yehudah’s Wars
20. The War with Lysias
21. The Judaean-Roman Covenant
22. Yehudah’s Wars
23. Antiochus Eupator’s War
24. Nicanor’s War
25. Yehudah’s Death
26. The Days of Yonathan and Shimon
27. Orkanus (Hyrcanus) and Talmi (Ptolemy)
28. Hyrcanus and Antiochus Pius
29. Hyrcanus’s Wars
30. Hyrcanus and the Pharisees (Perushim)
31. The Days of Aristobulus the First
32. Alexander Yannai’s Wars
33. Alexander and the Pharisees
34. Queen Alexandra’s Days
35. Civil War between Hyrcanus and Aristobulus
36. Roman Intervention and Pompey’s Siege of Jerusalem
37. Roman Civil Wars
38. The Story of Julius Caesar
39. Erodes (Herod) before the Sanhedrin
40. The Roman Leaders’ Affection for the People of Judaea
41. Deaths of Julius Caesar and Antipater
42. Anthony’s Days
43. The War with Antigonus
44. Hyrcanus’s Death
45. Aristobulus’s Death
46. War with the Aravim (Arabs)
47. Herod after the Downfall of Antonius
48. Mariamme’s Demise
49. King Herod’s Greatness
50. Herod’s Construction
51. Herod’s Sons
52. Death of Herod’s Sons
53. The Wicked Antipater
54. Downfall of the Wicked Antipater
55. Herod’s Death
56. Days of Archelaus
57. Paulina’s Affair
58. Decrees of Gaius
59. Beginning of the Rebellion against the Romans
60. Agripas’s Speech
61. The Bandits Take Control of Jerusalem
62. Death of Shimon of Sitopoli (Scythopolis)
63. Cestius’s War
64. Vespasian Is Sent to Fight against the Jews
65. Josephus’s Campaigns in Galilee
66. Battle of Yodphat
67. Joseph Saves His Life
68. Battles in the Galilee
69. Internal Battles within Jerusalem
70. Vespasian’s Enthronement
71. The Beginning of Shimon’s Deeds
72. Fighting between the Bandits
73. Joseph’s Lamentation over Jerusalem
74. Beginning of Titus’s War against Jerusalem
75. Fighting Within and Without
76. Joseph’s Words on Jerusalem
77. The War on the Wall
78. Joseph’s Speech to the People of Jerusalem
79. Tale of the Makedonian Lad
80. Siege of Jerusalem
81. Death of Amitai
82. The Battles of Jerusalem Continue
83. The Battle in the Azarah
84. The Battle within the City
85. Battle of the Fortress
86. A Mother’s Cruel Act
87. Burning of the Temple
88. End of the Battle of Jerusalem
89. Battle of Masada
Appendix: Titus
Additions to Yosippon
1. Philo the Alexandrian
2. On Josephus
3. Death of Kleopatra
4. A Sleazy Affair in the Days of Tiberius
5. Origin of Christianity and the Story of Shoshana (Susanna)
Selections from the Normative Version of Yosippon
1. Beginning of the Siege of Yodphat: The Roman Iron Ram
2. Crowning of Vespasian and Death of Agripas
3. Acts of Bravery of the Jews
4. An Incident between Yoseph ben Gurion and the Bandits
Gesta Alexandros
Translator’s Note
1. Death of Philipos
2. Beginning of His Wars
3. War with Darius
4. Alexandros in Yavan and in Other Places
5. Alexandros Spies Out Darius and Darius’s Death
6. Alexandros’s Travels in the Lands of Marvels
7. The War with Poros
8. Sages of Hodu
9. Marvels of Hodu
10. Alexandros chez Kandaki the Queen
11. Alexandros’s Journeys of Marvel
12. Death of Alexandros
13. From Alexandros to Augustos
14. Fragment from a Treatise on Hodu and a Passage from the Talmud
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