Chapter 4 The ‘Maskil Hero’: the Image of Josephus in the Worldview of the Jewish Enlightenment

In: Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture
Author:
Yotam Cohen
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85–105
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004393097_006

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Series:  Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 55
Cover Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture
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9789004393097
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
16 May 2019
Front Matter
Introduction Reading and Re-writing Josephus for Modern Times
Chapter 1 Josephus in Early Modern Jewish Thought from Menasseh to Spinoza
Chapter 2 Hidden Polemic: Josephus’s Work in the Historical Writings of Jacques Basnage and Menaḥem Amelander
Chapter 3 A Tradition in the Plural: Reframing Sefer Yosippon for Modern Times
Chapter 5 Josephus and the Jewish Chronicle: 1841–1855
Chapter 6 Kalman Schulman’s Josephus and the Counter-History of the Haskalah
Chapter 7 Kalman Schulman’s Hebrew Translation of Josephus’s Jewish War
Chapter 8 In the Shadow of Napoleon: the Reception of Josephus in the Writings of Jost, Salvador and Graetz
Chapter 9 Dismantling Orientalist Fantasies and Protestant Hegemony: German Jewish Exegetes and Their Retrieval of Josephus the Jew
Chapter 10 Can’t Live with Him, Can’t Live without Him: Josephus in the Orthodox Historiography of Isaac Halevy and Ze’ev Yavetz
Chapter 11 Josephus through the Eyes of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856–1943): between Eastern Europe, the USA and Eretz Yisra’el
Chapter 12 Taking Josephus Personally: the Curious Case of Emanuel Bin Gorion
Chapter 13 ‘Flavius’ on Trial in Mandate Palestine, 1932–1945: Natan Bistritzky’s Hebrew Play and Lion Feuchtwanger’s German Trilogy
Chapter 14 Reading and Interpreting Flavius Josephus in the Vilna and Warsaw Ghettos (1941–1943)
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