IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1127: Entanglements of Knowledge: Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | SNSF Sinergia-Project 'Lege Iosephum!' Reading Josephus in the Latin Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Lena Tröger, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern |
| Moderator/Chair: | Katharina Heyden, Institut für Historische Theologie, Universität Bern |
| Paper 1127-a | Cautus et assiduus lege verba voluminis huius: On the Christian Transmission and Reception of Flavius Josephus in the Latin West (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1127-b | Magis Iosephi sententiam sequimur: Building the Historia Scholastica on Josephus' Foundations (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1127-c | Cut, Copy, and Paste: The Use of Josephus in William of Tyre's Chronicon (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | The works of the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus were a central part of the cultural heritage of the Christian Middle Ages, with a profound role in diverse historical and religious traditions. The Latin translations of his works were unique sources for biblical history, Second-Temple Judaism, and the topography of the Holy Land. This panel seeks to explore different ways of reading and appropriating Josephus by analyzing the medieval manuscript tradition, historical exegesis, and crusade chronicles. These diverse aspects of Josephus' reception reveal complex entanglements of knowledge transmitted by generations of Christian scholars and readers. |