Freedom and empire in Josephus

Michael S. Kochin

Freedom and empire in Josephus

Michael S. Kochin

School of Political science studies

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

Flavius Josephus, historian, Pharisee, priest, rebel and traitor, was proud to say that he fought against Rome. Josephus is not closed to the value of freedom as independence from foreign hegemony, nor is he deaf to hopes of the restoration of Jewish freedom. By meditating on Josephus, with principal attention to his retelling of the Bible and post-Biblical Jewish history in the Antiquities, I will explore the complex dialectic Josephus presents of freedom and empire, for both Jews and Romans.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16-32
Number of pages	17
Journal	History of Political Thought
Volume	39
Issue number	1
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018

Keywords

Aristocracy
Bible
Caligula
Freedom
Idolatry
Josephus
Republicanism
Rome
Theocracy
Tyranny

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

History
Sociology and Political Science
Philosophy

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