Workshop ‘Josephus and his Sources’, 2 May 2024

2 May 2024, IASH Conference Room

12.00                       Welcome

12.15                       Forgetting Antiochus III, Rotem Avneri Meir (Helsinki)

13.00                       Josephus and the End of Hellenism, Benedikt Eckhardt (Edinburgh)

13.45                       Coffee Break

14.00                       Josephus’ Alexandrian Source for Ant. 13.74-80: Jews and non-Jews in Alexandrian Courts and the Birth of a Literary Genre? Meron Piotrkowski (Oxford)

14.45                       Akribeia and the Story of Asinaeus and Anilaeus: Jewish Disaster or in-artful Conflation? David Friedman (Cambridge)

15.30                       Coffee Break

15.45                       Agrippa I – The Man of the Hour(s), Judith Göppinger (Bern)

16.30                       Engaging the Emperor: Local Populations and Imperial Power in Claudius’ Letter to the Alexandrians, Renske Janssen (Edinburgh)

17.15                       Coffee and Concluding Section