TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mason, Steve
AU  - Mason,Steve
TI  - Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins:  Methods and Categories
SN  - 9781598562545
U1  - B55.9 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Massachusetts
PB  - Hendrickson Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part 1: Josephus: Interpretation and history  1: Josephus as authority for First-century judea .....7  2: Of audience and meaning: Reading Josephu`s Judean war in the context of a Flavian Audience .....45  3: Figured speech and Irony in T. Flavius josephus .....69  4: Contradiction or counterpoint? Josephus and historical method .....103  Part II: Josephus and judea   5: Jews, Judeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of categorization in Ancient history .....141  6: Pharisees in the narratives of Josephus .....185  7: The philosophy of Josepnu`s pharisees ....217  8: The essenes of Josephu`s judean war: from story to history .....239  Part III: Christian origins   9: Paul`s announcement: Good news and its detractors in earliest christianity .....283  10: For i am not ashamed of the gospel (Rom1:16):  The gospel and the first readers of romans ....303  11: Cheif priests, sadducees, pharisees, and sanhedrin in luke-acts and josephus ....329
ER  -