Honora Howell Chapman

Biographic Data

ID3874558
NAMEHonora Howell Chapman
GIVEN NAMESHonora Howell
FAMILY NAMEChapman
SIGNATURECHAPMAN H H
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Fresno
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Josephus in the Flavian Age and Beyond (on Davies, Representing the Dynasty in Flavian Rome)

    Open AccessHonora Howell ChapmanARTICLEHistos2025

    o one nowadays can dispute the timeliness of a book about a war sparked by violence against Jews in their homeland, the devastation to infrastructure and mass casualties, and regime change.One such book, Bellum Judaicum, was written almost 2,000 years ago by a historian who introduces himself as 'Joseph, son of Matthias, a Hebrew by race, a native of Jerusalem, and a priest'. 1 Joseph had served as a rebel general in this war, was captured and en…

  • Josephus’s Jewish War and Late Republican Civil War

    Honora Howell ChapmanCHAPTERThe Historiography of Late…2019

  • Josephus

    Open AccessHonora Howell ChapmanCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2018

    (Titus?) Flavius Josephus (37/38–ca. 100 ce ), a Judaean priest and general during the First Jewish Revolt, composed thirty extant volumes in Greek of ancient and contemporary Jewish history that provide invaluable literary evidence for the Second Temple and early Roman imperial periods.

  • A Companion to Josephus

    Open AccessHonora Howell Chapman, Zuleika RodgersBOOKCompanion to Josephus2015

    A Companion to Josephus presents a collection of readings from international scholars that explore the works of the first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Represents the first single-volume collection of readings to focus on Josephus Covers a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the subject, including reception history Features contributions from 29 eminent scholars in the field from four continents Reveals important insights into t…

  • Companion to Josephus

    Honora Howell Chapman, Zuleika RodgersBOOKCompanion to Josephus2015

  • Josephus

    Open AccessHonora Howell ChapmanCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    (Titus?) Flavius Josephus (37/38–ca. 100 CE ), a Judaean priest and general during the First Jewish Revolt, composed thirty extant volumes of ancient and contemporary Jewish history that serve as invaluable literary evidence for the Second Temple and early Roman imperial periods.

  • Reading the Judeans and the Judean War in Martial's Liber spectaculorum

    Open AccessHonora Howell ChapmanARTICLEJournal for the Study of the…2012References: 10

    Martial's Liber spectaculorum celebrates spectacles at the Flavian amphitheatre, which was most likely built with money gained from the Judean War. This article contextualizes epigrams from Martial's Liber spectaculorum with evidence from the histories of Josephus and other sources, finding possible references to the Judeans in specific epigrams with anthropomorphized animals. It also takes into consideration an epigram from the Florilegium Galli…

  • What Josephus Sees: The Temple of Peace and the Jerusalem Temple as Spectacle in Text and Art

    Honora Howell ChapmanARTICLEPhoenix2009

  • Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary ( BJ 6.199–219)

    Open AccessHonora Howell ChapmanOTHERA Companion to Greek and Roman…2007

    When the Judean priest Josephus dipped into his inkpot to compose a history of the war that he had just survived, he chose to describe it in such a way that it would capture the imagination of readers acquainted with both Greco-Roman and Jewish literature. I would like to concentrate in this chapter on a particularly ghastly scene from Book 6 of the Judean War to which the early Christians gave special attention in their histories and sermons. Th…