Against Apion

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Against Apion is a polemical work by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus that defends Judaism and Jewish history against the criticisms and slanders of Greco-Roman writers.

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instanceOf apologetic work
literary work
polemical work
addressesWork Against the Jews (lost work by Apion)
aim to demonstrate the antiquity of Jewish law
to present Judaism as a rational philosophy
to refute calumnies against Jews
alternativeTitle Against the Greeks
Against Apion
surface form: Contra Apionem
author Flavius Josephus
authorCitizenship Roman citizen
authorEthnicity Jewish
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire
criticizes Apion of Alexandria
anti-Jewish writers in the Greco-Roman world
defends Jewish antiquity
Jewish law
Moses as lawgiver
the antiquity of the Jewish people
genre apologetics
polemics
religious literature
historicalContext post-Second Temple period
influenced later Christian apologetics
medieval Jewish apologetic literature
literaryForm rhetorical treatise
mainSubject Jewish history
Judaism
criticism of anti-Jewish slanders
defense of the Jewish people
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
partOf Josephus’s apologetic writings
preservedIn Greek manuscript tradition
relatedWork Antiquities of the Jews
surface form: Jewish Antiquities
religiousTradition Judaism
setting Greco-Roman intellectual milieu
structure two books
timePeriodWritten 1st century CE
title Against Apion self-link
topic chronology of ancient nations
defense of the Torah
relationship between Jews and Greeks
reliability of historical sources
usesSource Chaldean historical traditions
Egyptian historical traditions
Hellenistic historiography
Phoenician historical traditions
writtenBy Flavius Josephus

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Flavius Josephus notableWork Against Apion
Antiquities of the Jews relatedWork Against Apion
Against Apion title Against Apion self-link
Against Apion alternativeTitle Against Apion
this entity surface form: Contra Apionem
Yosef ben Matityahu notableWork Against Apion
Against the Greeks relatedWork Against Apion
Apion of Alexandria mentionedIn Against Apion
Against the Jews (lost work by Apion) knownFrom Against Apion
this entity surface form: Against Apion (work by Josephus)
Against the Jews (lost work by Apion) relatedWork Against Apion
this entity surface form: Against Apion (work by Josephus)
Works of Flavius Josephus coreWork Against Apion