Preface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Zuleika Rodgers 2 Tracking Josephus from Oxford to Rome: In honorem Tessa Rajak Loveday Alexander Part 1 Josephus3 Rajak's Josephus: an Appreciation with Methodological Reflections Steve Mason 4 Conversion in Josephus' Adiabene Narrative Anthony Rabin 5 The Reception of Josephus' Jewish War : the First Two Centuries Martin Goodman 6 The Translation History of Josephus in the English-Speaking World Gohei Hata Part 2 Jewish Worlds in Antiquity7 Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology Erich S. Gruen 8 The Law in the Diaspora John J. Collins 9 Allegations of Revolt against the Jews of Babylonia Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley 10 "Hic situs est Magnus": Commenting on Pompey the Great's Tombs in Egypt Honora Chapman 11 The Jews of Roman Palmyra David Noy 12 The Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae / Palaestinae : Where Are We, and What Have We Learnt? Fergus Millar 13 Tacitus' Excursus on the Jews: Its Context and an Overlooked Literary Device Miriam Ben Zeev Hofman Part 3 Greek Bible14 The Septuagint Psalms and Their Setting James K. Aitken 15 A Date with the Greek Bible Sarah Pearce 16 Contested Early Jewish Martyrdom: the Case of the Maccabean Martyrs Jan Willem van Henten Appendix: Tessa Rajak's Publications Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects.