JOSEPHUS The HISTORIAN & His SOCIETY / Tessa Rajak / Jewish History

Josephus The Historian and His Society. Tessa Rajak. Fortress Press, Philadelphia\nAbout:\""Rajak's work is an original piece of serious scholarship which treats in a careful and judicious way a broad range of problems connected with the career of Josephus and his early literary activity. It attempts to provide insight into the Palestinian background of the historian, his ambiguous role in the Jewish revolt against Rome, his relationship to his Roman environment, and his ongoing apologetic and historiographical concerns. Rajak displays a great deal of erudition and her judgments about Josephus are informed by extensive familiarity with the literature and history of Greco-Roman antiquity and the Jewish tradition.\"" - Harold W. Attridge, Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University\nAuthor:Tessa Rajak (1946- ) is a British historian and Emeritus Professor of Ancient history at the University of Reading. She is also a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewisp