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The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer’s text, reputation, and content. This volume demonstrates the complex relationship between Josephus’ legacy and his readers who sought to make use of that legacy across the period of 500 to 1300. Contributors include: Carson Bay, Susan Edgington, Anthony Ellis, Paul C. Hilliard, Karen M. Kletter, Justin Lake, Richard M. Pollard, Graeme Ward, and Julian Yolles.

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Karen M. Kletter is Mclean Professor of History at Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her research interests are in intellectual and cultural history, historiography, and Jewish-Christian relations in the central Middle Ages. She has published articles related to the medieval reception of the Latin Josephus tradition in The Wiley Companion to Josephus (2016) and on the destruction of Jerusalem in Anglo-Norman historiography, “Politics, Prophecy, and Jews” in Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay them Not (Brill 2013). Paul C. Hilliard is an Associate Professor and Chair in the department of Church History at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. His research is focused on early medieval intellectual history, especially the writings of Bede. His most recent publication is “Bede’s Martyrology: a resource and spiritual lesson” in Bede the Scholar, eds. P. Draby and M. MacCarron (Manchester: 2023).

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