A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus by Frederic Raphael
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\nFrom the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37\u2013c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.<\/p>\n
Joseph ben Mattathias\u2019s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews <\/p>\n
seeking a place in the dominant cultures they inhabit. Raphael brings a scholar\u2019s rigor, a historian\u2019s perspective, and a novelist\u2019s imagination to this project. He goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus\u2019s life and his singular literary achievements to examine how Josephus has been viewed by posterity, finding in him the prototype for the un-Jewish Jew, the assimilated intellectual, and the abiding apostate: the recurrent figures in the long centuries of the Diaspora. Raphael\u2019s insightful portraits of \u200aYehuda Halevi, Baruch Spinoza, Karl Kraus, Benjamin Disraeli, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hannah Arendt extend and illuminate the Josephean worldview Raphael so eloquently lays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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