Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Historical Chronology of the Hasmonean Period in the War and Antiquities of Flavius Josephus: Separating Fact from Fiction -- Socio-economic Hierarchy and its Economic Foundations in First Century Galilee: The Evidence from Yodefat and Gamla -- Le Système Sacrificiel de Flavius Josèphe au Livre III des Antiquitès Juives (Ant. 3.224-236) -- Between Fact and Fiction: Josephus' Account of the Destruction of the Temple -- Flavius Josephus in Rome -- Bemerkungen zum Aufstand des Judas Galilaeus sowie zum Biblischen Bilderverbot bei Josephus, Hippolyt und Pseudo-Hieronymus -- Reconstructing Exodus Tradition: Moses in the Second Book of Josephus' Antiquities -- Unity and Chronology in the Jewish Antiquities -- Polybius and Josephus on Rome -- Convenient Fiction or Causal Factor? The Questioning of Jewish Antiquity according to Against Apion 1.2 -- Where is the Temple Site of Onias IV in Egypt? -- Constructing Herod as a Tyrant: Assessing Josephus' Parallel Passages -- Josephus at Jotapata: Why Josephus Wrote What He Wrote -- Josephus on Herod's Spring from the Shadows of the Parthian Invasion -- Josephus on Poisoning and Magic Cures or, On the Meaning of Pharmakon -- Josephus and Discrepant Sources -- Josephus, the Τemple, and the Jewish War -- The Purposes and Functions of the Synagogue in Late Second Temple Period Judaea: Evidence from Josephus and Archaeological Investigation -- Propaganda, Fiktion und Symbolik: die Bedeutung des Jerusalemer Tempels im Werk des Josephus -- Josephus, Catullus, Divine Providence, and the Date of the Judean War -- Josephus the Stage Manager at the Service of Josephus the Dramatist: Masada as Test Case -- Josephus and Justus: The Place of Chapter 65 (336-367) in Life, the Autobiography of Flavius Josephus.

A Jewish Priest in Rome -- "To be or not to be . . ." An Historical Interpretation of 2 Kings 17 in Josephus' Antiquities -- General Index.