Antiguidades judaicas: a construção da identidade judaica em Josefo.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between identity and difference and how it contributes to define the Jews' feeling o f belongingness in the book Jewish Antiquity, written by Flävio Josefo. The research articulates the debate taking the author’s perspective on the narrated scene, considering his work as full o f idiosyncratic elements, because he was Jewish. In this analysis, we dialogued with the theme o f identity construction making a discursive analysis o f Jewish Antiquities by Flävio Josefo. In the first part, we contextualized the author, his historiographical project and the Roman society o f his time. We analyzed the method, from the long return to a "legendary time", to explain the Jewish cosmogony and the creation o f their identity. Then, we try to see which identities were presented in Jewish society in the first Century D.C., when Flävio Josefo wrote his work. We analyzed the various parties in the Roman Judea, and discuss about the Jewish society in a plural way. Keywords: