Josephus: Henry Leeming: Josephus' Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison (2003) "This volume presents in English translation the Slavonic version of Josephus Flavius' "Jewish War, long inaccessible to Anglophone readers, according to N.A. Me?erskij's scholarly edition, together with his erudite and wide-ranging study of literary, historical and philological aspects of the work, a textological apparatus and commentary. The synoptic layout of the Slavonic and Greek versions in parallel columns enables the reader to compare their content in detail. It will be seen that the divergences are far more extensive than those indicated hitherto."

HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE

"During the Middle Ages, Josephus was the most widely read ancient author in Europe.. Josephus' literary influence had no equals, with the sole exception of the Bible."

Flavius Josephus, a Jewish priest and Pharisee, was put in command of the national resistance in Galilee at the time of Israel's revolt against Rome.  When he was captured at Jotapata; his life was spared upon his prediction to rival Vespasian, that the Roman general would soon become emperor.  Upon the fulfillment of this prophecy shortly thereafter, he was commissioned to provide his captors with a history of the Jewish people, although he initially wrote a history of the Roman-Jewish war suited for both a Roman and a Jewish audience.   His works, disputed though they may be regard accuracy, are an indispensable source on the life and history in Roman Judea.

THEOLOGICAL
SIGNIFICANCE

"The destruction of Jerusalem was more terrible than anything that the world has ever witnessed, either before or since. Even Titus seemed to see in his cruel work the hand of an avenging God." (C.H. Spurgeon)

UNABRIDGED LIBRARY OF THE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS
(Under Construction)

LATEST ADDITION

• Richard Laqueur - The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation Based on New Critical Sources (1920 PDF) "Laqueur continues to serve, justifiably and indisputably as the introduction to the literary criticism of the text of Josephus"

• Henry Leeming: Josephus' Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison (2003) "This volume presents in English translation the Slavonic version of Josephus Flavius' "Jewish War, long inaccessible to Anglophone readers, according to N.A. Mejerskij's scholarly edition, together with his erudite and wide-ranging study of literary, historical and philological aspects of the work, a textological apparatus and commentary. The synoptic layout of the Slavonic and Greek versions in parallel columns enables the reader to compare their content in detail. It will be seen that the divergences are far more extensive than those indicated hitherto."
   

BELLO JUDAICA

• Exhaustive Bibliography

• 1470: Augsburg - Publisher: Schüssler

• 1400s: Slavonic Josephus

• 1499: Josephus de antiquitatibus ac de bello Judaico

• 1544: Froben : Switzerland

• 1570: Giosefo Della Guerra et Ultima Destructione di Gierusalem

• 1581: Josephus Flavius - Strassburg, Austria

• 1702: The Works of Flavius Josephus compared with the Original Greek (1767 Edition PDF)  "Another large undertaking was 'The Works of Flavius Josephus compared with the original Greek,' with two discourses by Dr. Milles (a folio volume of 1130 pages), London, 1702; other editions 1717, 1732, and 1733. The translator received 300l. for the work, with twenty-five copies of the book in ordinary paper, and twenty-five in royal. The subscription price for the ordinary copies was 25s., and for the royal paper copies 45s. A sixth part of the profit on the sale of the whole impression was also assigned to L'Estrange (Hist. MSS. Comm. llth Rep. pt.vii. p. 113). A new edition in three volumes in Elzevir type was burnt in John Bowyer's printing office on 30 Jan. 1712 (NICHOLS, Lit. Anecdotes, i. 66). "

• 1704: 1704 Amsterdam: Jan and Kaspar Lyuken - Alle de Werken van Flavius Josephus

• 1706: Basnage : Rotterdam - "L'Histoire et la Religion des Juifs Depuis Jésus Christ Jusqu'à Présent," intended as a supplement and continuation to Josephus

• 1737: History of the Destruction of Jerusalem in One Part  Translated by William Whiston

• 1851: R. Traill - The Jewish war: a new tr., by R. Traill, ed. with notes by I. Taylor - Volume One (PDF)

• 1851: R. Traill - The Jewish war: a new tr., by R. Traill, ed. with notes by I. Taylor - Volume Two (PDF)

• 1911: Reinach: French Edition Vol. 1 (PDF)

• 2003: Hyperlinked Edition from CCEL (Whiston Translation) (PDF)

ADAPTATIONS

• 1823: C. Johnstone - Josephus Wars of the Jews Adapted to the Capacities of Young Persons

• 1827: Pierre and His Family - The Destruction of Jerusalem

• 1840: Daniel Smith - The Destruction of Jerusalem - The Whole Being Intended to Illustrate the Fulfillment of the Predictions of Moses and the Messiah

• 1869: M.A. Hallock - Child's History of the Fall of Jerusalem

• 1870: The Fall of Jerusalem and The Roman Conquest of Judea

• 1876: William Patton - The Judgment of Jerusalem

• 1884: William Shepard - Our Young Folks' Josephus (PDF)

• 1902: Alfred Church - The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem

ART & DRAMA

• 1603: Matthew Gwinne - Nero, a New Tragedy (Drama)
• 1677: John Crowne - The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (Drama)
• 1683: Jerusalem Besieged By Titus Vespasian
• 1976: Avalon Hill - Siege of Jerusalem Board Game

   

FICTION & BIOGRAPHY

• 1824: John Galt - The Bachelor's Wife
• 1857: "Ben Asaph" - The Moriad: or, End of the Jewish State
• 1867: James DeMille - Helena's Household: A Tale of Rome in the First Century
• 1888: G.A. Henty - For The Temple : A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
• 1891: F.W. Farrar - Darkness and dawn, or, Scenes in the days of Nero
• 1901: H. Rider Haggard - Pearl Maiden - The Fall of Jerusalem
• 1908: Elizabeth Miller - The City of Delight
• 1910: Luther - Justus of Tiberias (PDF)
• 1910: John Carling - The Doomed City (PDF)
• 1914: Bentwich - Josephus
• 1920: Laqueur - The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus: A Biographical Investigation Based on New Critical Sources (1920 PDF) "Laqueur continues to serve, justifiably and indisputably as the introduction to the literary criticism of the text of Josephus"
• 1932: Fruchtwanger - Josephus Trilogy

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