Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 404
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-9787-0134-2 • Paperback • May 2021 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-1-9787-0133-5 • eBook • March 2019 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
F. B. A. Asiedu is a visiting scholar at Duke University.
1. Josephus, Paul, and the Early Christians: Before and After 62 CE
2. Reading Josephus’s Silences: Writing Paul Out of the Jewish Archives of the First Century
3. Josephus and Martial in Flavian Rome: The Rhetoric of Silence and the Language of Derision
4. Martial, Tacitus, Pliny, and Friends: Fear, Silence, Exile, and Death in Domitian’s Rome
5. Paul, the Jewish Past, and the Roman Contexts of First Clement
This is a stimulating book about which much more could be said. It is necessarily speculative, as are many arguments about silence, but it explores Josephus' silence in sometimes arresting ways. Few will agree with all its conclusions but all should profit from it.
— Journal of Ecclesiastical History
F. B. A. Asiedu. . . is an expert on Josephus and helps explain the reason why Josephus remains silent about some personages (e.g., Paul the apostle) and significant events such as the fire in Rome in 64 C.E. of which he most certainly must have been aware. Many of these gaps, Asiedu believes, were deliberate and strategic omissions on Josephus's part because he did not want to draw attention to such subjects. The reader of Asiedu's work will gain new appreciation for Josephus and his valuable, if selective, historical information.— The Bible Today
Asiedu makes a credible case and along the way supplies the reader with a lot of information about Joesphus himself.
— The Bible Today