Ari Finkelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 6029281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Finkelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkelstein |
| SIGNATURE | FINKELSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of CincinnatiCinncinnati, OHUnited States |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taking Herod to Task: Source Critical and New Historical Methods of Reading Herod’s Trial
For nearly three decades scholars of the first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, have debated this author’s methodologies and goals in writing his Jewish Antiquities . While source-critics view Josephus as a compiler, new historians have chosen to read Antiquities as primarily a literary work which reveals social, political, and intellectual history. A series of recent publications place these methodologies side by side but rarely coord…
The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch
Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch
The book investigates how the emperor Julian (361–63 c.e.) uses Jews as ethnic Judeans in his hellenizing project to define Hellenic identity and to disqualify and delegitimize Christian ethnic claims. It concludes by summing up the main takeaways of the book for Jewish, Christian, and Roman historians of late antiquity.
Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Categorizing Works of Jewish Historiography of the Second Temple Period
The categories of Jewish historiography of the Second Temple Period frame how scholars and their students approach crucial texts of this era and therefore shape our understanding of history. Yet, these categories are fraught with difficulties. This article explores this issue by examining Daniel R. Schwartz’s categorization of Second Temple historiography as either Palestinian or diasporan works. While these categories provide interesting insight…
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The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch
Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch
The book investigates how the emperor Julian (361–63 c.e.) uses Jews as ethnic Judeans in his hellenizing project to define Hellenic identity and to disqualify and delegitimize Christian ethnic claims. It concludes by summing up the main takeaways of the book for Jewish, Christian, and Roman historians of late antiquity.
Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Categorizing Works of Jewish Historiography of the Second Temple Period
The categories of Jewish historiography of the Second Temple Period frame how scholars and their students approach crucial texts of this era and therefore shape our understanding of history. Yet, these categories are fraught with difficulties. This article explores this issue by examining Daniel R. Schwartz’s categorization of Second Temple historiography as either Palestinian or diasporan works. While these categories provide interesting insight…
Taking Herod to Task: Source Critical and New Historical Methods of Reading Herod’s Trial
For nearly three decades scholars of the first-century Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, have debated this author’s methodologies and goals in writing his Jewish Antiquities . While source-critics view Josephus as a compiler, new historians have chosen to read Antiquities as primarily a literary work which reveals social, political, and intellectual history. A series of recent publications place these methodologies side by side but rarely coord…
History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · 331-363 (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works)