Josephus’s Lamentations in the Judean War: Body, Emotional Resistance, and Gender

In the Judean War’s proem, Josephus professes his need to lament, an atypical statement in Hellenistic and Roman historiography. This article explores his lamentations, in the proem and the work, as they engage body, emotion, gender, and power. It examines the constructions that laments receive in J...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: What Is Hellenistic Judaism? edited by René Bloch and Sarah Pearce
Main Author: Mirguet, Françoise 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 524-566
Further subjects:B Judean War
B lamentation / lament
B Flavius Josephus
B Gender
B Emotion
B Body
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