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 ⓘ
Contra Apionem ⓘ
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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 Jewish Antiquities ⓘ
religiousTradition Judaism ⓘ
setting Greco-Roman intellectual milieu ⓘ
structure two books ⓘ
timePeriodWritten 1st century CE ⓘ
title Against Apion ⓘ
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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Antiquities of the Jews → relatedWork → Against Apion ⓘ
Against Apion → title → Against Apion ⓘ
Against Apion → alternativeTitle → Contra Apionem ⓘ
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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 (work by Josephus) ⓘ
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Against the Jews (lost work by Apion) → relatedWork → Against Apion (work by Josephus) ⓘ
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Works of Flavius Josephus → coreWork → Against Apion ⓘ