Index of Subjects
adulatio. see flattery
Agrippa I (Jewish king)
and banquet scene
149–54
and divinatory skill
125–27
and divine providence
124–25
and flattery (adulatio)
132–35, 151, 162–63
and treason charges
121–23, 130–32. See also maiestas (treason)
death of
161–63
evaluation of in Antiquities
153, 161–65
exemplary function of
128–29, 130–35, 157–65, 175–77
imprisonment of
124–29
in Legatio
142–49, 154–57
literary connections to Esther (Jewish queen)
149–57
literary connections to Joseph (Genesis patriarch)
117–29
relationship to Gaius
121, 123, 132, 139, 149–51, 154–56.
Gaius (Roman emperor)
reputation for profligacy
153, 161–65
scholarship on
113–17
summary of accounts in Antiquities
112–13
subversive adaptation
Ahasuerus/Artaxerxes (Persian king)
in Antiquities
139–41
Gaius (Roman emperor)
Antiquities of the Jews
aims and purpose
15–17
audience
10–13, 24–25
date of composition
4–5
overview of sources
5–10
publication
13–15.
recitatio
historiography
Apion
in Antiquities and Jewish War compared
142–43, 146–49
in Antiquities and Legatio compared
143–49
in Contra Apionem
69, 147
literary connections to Haman
145, 147–48
Isidorus, Jewish identity
criticism, source and redaction
of Antiquities account of Agrippa I
114–16, 137–49, 154–57
of the Tales of the Tobiads
60, 63, 65, 91–92, 101–102
debated in Josephan scholarship
22–23
literary analysis
delatio. see maiestas (treason)
Domitian
and date and audience of Josephus’ works
4, 10–12
damnatio memoriae
158–59
implicit criticism of by Josephus
158–60
fiscus Iudaicus, Jewish identity, political philosophy
education (παιδεία )
Greco-Roman ideals
8–9
of Josephus
7–9
exemplarity, exemplum
Esther (Jewish Queen)
and banquet scene
149–54
Agrippa I (Jewish king)
Esther, Book of
form used in Antiquities
136
Josephan alterations to
118, 139–41, 152–53
textual history
136
exemplarity
and ethical systems
34, 37–38
and moralism
41–42
and practical decision-making
42–43
as interpretive framework
27–28
definition of
33–37, 41–42, 53
in Antiquities
47–53, 173–74
in Josephan scholarship
43–47
in Plutarch
38–43, 84–85, 164.
Plutarch
modes of (descriptive, expository, protreptic, exploratory, experimental)
40–41, 54
scholarly model of
37, 45, 46
theorization of
173–77
Agrippa I (Jewish King), Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Tobiad), Tales of the Tobiads
exemplum/exempla
Greek cognates in Antiquities
49–51
social and literary contexts of
34–35, 166
exemplarity
fiscus Iudaicus
10–11, 131–32, 158–59.
Domitian
flattery (adulatio)
among Roman elites
132–33
in Stoic thought
133–34
Agrippa I (Jewish king)
Gaius (Roman emperor)
death of
154, 157
depiction in Josephus
137–39, 141–46, 148–49, 158–60
in Antiquities and Jewish War compared
142–43
in Antiquities and Legatio compared
144–46
literary connections to Ahasuerus/Artaxerxes (Persian king)
139–42, 146, 150–51, 160
literary connections to Nebuchadnezzar
141
Agrippa I (Jewish king), Jewish identity
genre
and court-tales
19–20
and Jewish novelistic literature
18–20
historiography
Greco-Roman discourses of exemplarity. see exemplarity, exemplum
Haman. see Apion, Gaius (Roman emperor)
historiography
ancient and modern ideals compared
29–33
and aims of Josephus
15–16
and Jewish apologetic
47–49
moralistic disposition of in antiquity
29–31
periodization and schematization in
108–109
Antiquities of the Jews, exemplarity, genre
Hyrcanus (Tobiad)
at Ptolemaic court
103–105
birth of
80–82
death of
105–107
literary connections to Joseph (Genesis patriarch)
88–90, 92–94, 94–105
sibling rivalry motif
87–102
supplanting father and brothers
97–98, 101–102, 103–105
Joseph (Genesis patriarch), Joseph (Tobiad), Tales of the Tobiads
inversion. see subversive adaptation
irony. see subversive adaptation
Isidorus
143–44, 146–48.
Apion, Jewish identity
Jewish identity
Greco-Roman antipathy towards
10–12, 69–70, 113–14, 136–37, 142–45
Greco-Roman attraction to
10–12, 13
Apion, Domitian, fiscus Iudaicus, Gaius (Roman emperor)
Joseph (Genesis patriarch)
and divine providence
124–25
and dream interpretation
71–72, 125–27
and Potiphar’s wife
75–78, 121–22
at Egyptian court
66–68, 71–72
imprisonment of
127–28
in Antiquities and other sources compared
67–68, 71–72, 73–74, 75–80, 88–90, 92–101, 119–22, 124–28
paralleled in Greco-Roman and Egyptian literature
75–76
parallels with biography of Josephus
70–71, 128–29
sibling rivalry motif
88–90, 92–101
Agrippa I (Jewish king), Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Tobiad), Tales of the Tobiads
Joseph (Tobiad)
and sexual virtue
80–82
at Ptolemaic court
68–69, 71–74
literary connections to Joseph (Genesis patriarch)
66–69, 71–74, 80–82, 94–95
Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Genesis patriarch), Tales of the Tobiads
literary analysis
authorial intent
23–25
narratology
21–23
reader (implied, ideal, model, historically-reconstructed)
24–25
subversive adaptation
maiestas (treason)
among Roman elites
130–32
and fiscus Iudaicus
131
and informants (delatores), informing (delatio)
131–32
Agrippa I (Jewish king)
moralism. see exemplarity
Philo of Alexandria
as source for Josephus
143–49, 154–57
depiction of Joseph (Genesis patriarch)
71, 89, 93, 95, 97, 99, 100
on the Alexandrian crisis and Agrippa I
114, 116, 137–38, 143–49, 154–57
Agrippa I (Jewish king), Gaius (Roman emperor), Jewish identity
Plutarch
and exemplarity in Antiquities account of Agrippa I
164
and exemplarity in Tales of the Tobiads
84–85
as comparandum to Josephus
53–55
moralism and exemplarity in
39–41
synkrisis in
39–40
exemplarity, exemplum, political philosophy
political philosophy
and Greco-Roman elites
107–109
of Josephus
109–11, 159–60
stasis
practical decision-making, practical ethics. see exemplarity
recitatio (recitation)
and Josephus
14–15, 24–25
Greco-Roman practice of
13–15
See also Antiquities of the Jews
stasis (factionalism)
definition of
107
in Antiquities
109–11
in Greco-Roman sources
108–109
in Jewish War
109
in Tales of the Tobiads
106–107
political philosophy
subversive adaptation
and exemplarity
175–77
definition of
23–24
in Antiquities account of Agrippa I
123–24, 127, 129–30, 151–54, 156–57
in Tales of the Tobiads
71–75, 81–82, 90–91, 100–102, 103–105
Agrippa I (Jewish king), exemplarity, Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Tobiad), literary analysis, Tales of the Tobiads
Tales of the Tobiads
exemplarity in
82–86, 106–11
scholarship on
59–66
summary of
58
exemplarity, Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Tobiad), subversive adaptation
Tiberius (Roman emperor). see Agrippa I (Jewish king), maiestas
Tobiad Romance. see Tales of the Tobiads
Tobiads. see Hyrcanus (Tobiad), Joseph (Tobiad), Tales of the Tobiads
treason. see See maiestas