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Four oracles appear in Jeremiah 21:11-23:8 detailing the failure and future of the final kings in Judah, also known as the King Collection. The final oracle against Jehoiachin (he also appears with the names Coniah / Jeconiah) precedes the announcement of the unnamed new Davidid…

The topic of this thesis is the representation of the Hellenistic political figure and (now fragmentary) historian Nicolaus of Damascus in Josephus' first century CE Judaean Antiquities. The argument demonstrates that the distinction between Josephus' representations of Nicolaus…

Out of the war between the Jews and the Romans of 66–70 C.E. emerged a man who would make his mark on the history of his people through the ages. Flavius Josephus Judaicus produced an autobiography, an apologetic work, an account of the war in which he was involved, and a rewrit…

The late antique Latin translations of the works of the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus exerted a profound and many-faceted influence on medieval Christian scholarship in the Latin West. Though the ubiquitous nature of the influence and incorporation of these wor…