Publications of Jan Willem van Henten Notes on Contributors Introduction Jacqueline Borsje and Caroline Vander Stichele Part 1 Terrible Tyrants1 The Tyrants and the Rabbis: Persecution and the Birth of the Rabbinic Movement Yair Furstenberg 2 Think You're Tough? Severity as a Core Value in Josephus Steve Mason 3 Josephus on Land Ownership in Judea after 70 CE: the Tribulations and Sense of Jewish War 7.216-217 Daniel R. Schwartz 4 From Punished Tyrant to Enchanted King: How King Herod's Diseases Came to Include an Irish One Jacqueline Borsje 5 Storytelling and the Struggle against Repression: Hamid Ismailov's Novel The Devils ' Dance and the Thousand and One Nights Richard van Leeuwen Part 2 Honourable Heroes6 Sister Figures in the Hebrew Bible Revisited: Some Reflections Athalya Brenner-Idan 7 Intertextuality between the Book of Judith and the Lindos Chronicle Barbara Schmitz 8 Heroes of Patientia: Representing πομον in 4 Maccabees Silvia Castelli 9 Paul, Politics, and Passions: Beyond Heroics Jeremy Punt Part 3 Powerful Prophets10 The Prophet's Mantle: from Elijah to John the Baptist Karel van der Toorn 11 The Shifting Image of Elijah the Prophet in Text and Iconography Lieve M. Teugels 12 Playing Her Part: Herodias' Role in the Gospels and Josephus Caroline Vander Stichele Part 4 Memorable Martyrs13 Exemplary Death Narratives and the "Parting of the Ways" Adele Reinhartz 14 Basilides and Clement on Providence and Persecutions in Hadrianic Alexandria Dylan M. Burns 15 The Passion of Dioscorus and the Authenticity of Martyrdom Accounts Jan N. Bremmer 16 The Heroic Martyr and Prophet of Hermetic Renovation: Giordano Bruno in John Crowley's Aegypt Wouter J. Hanegraaff 17 Remembering the Christian Martyrs of Japan Carolina Ivanescu 18 Jewish Martyrdom and the Problem of Crucifixion Ruben J. van Wingerden 19 Das ist der Doktor Zunz! Masculine Virtues and Public Persona in the Nineteenth-Century Wissenschaft des Judentums Irene Zwiep Index of Modern Authors.