Description: A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus Author: Frederic Raphael Title: A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus Publication: Pantheon, 2013 Description: Hardcover. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.63 x 1.36 x 9.53 inches) Includes author's notes, bibliography, and an index. 368 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New / New. From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews seeking a place in the dominant cultures they inhabit. Raphael brings a scholar’s rigor, a historian’s perspective, and a novelist’s imagination to this project. He goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus’s life and his singular literary achievements to examine how Josephus has been viewed by posterity, finding in him the prototype for the un-Jewish Jew, the assimilated intellectual, and the abiding apostate: the recurrent figures in the long centuries of the Diaspora. Raphael’s insightful portraits of Yehuda Halevi, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Kraus, Benjamin Disraeli, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hannah Arendt extend and illuminate the Josephean worldview Raphael so eloquently lays out. Seller ID: 202365 Subject: Anthropology, Historical Biographies , Rome The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Frederic Raphael
Publisher: Pantheon
Year Printed: 2013
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
