Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-acts and Apologetic Historiography

Gregory Sterling

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 April 1992
Pages
504
ISBN
9789004095014

Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-acts and Apologetic Historiography

Gregory Sterling

For centuries scholars have recognized the apologetic character of the Hellenistic Jewish historians, Josephus, and Luke-Acts; they have not, however, addressed their possible relationships to each other and to their wider cultures. In this systematic effort to set these authors within the framework of Graeco-Roman traditions, Professor Sterling has used genre criticism as a method for locating a distinct tradition of historical writing, apologetic historiography. Apologetic historiography is the story of a subgroup of people which deliberately Hellenizes the traditions of the group in an effort to provide a self-definition within the context of the larger world. It arose as a result of a dialectic relationship with Greek ethnography. This work traces the evolution of this tradition through three major eras of eastern Mediterranean history spanning 600 years: the Persian, the Greek, and the Roman.

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