Jewish antiquities

Title(s):
  • Jewish antiquities
  • Liber antiquitatum
    (Liber antiquitatum, Book of antiquities)
  • Liber antiquitatum biblicorum
    (Liber antiquitatum biblicorum, Book of biblical antiquities)
Period covered:
At least Adam-Saul
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Secular history (antiquarianism)
  • Sacred history
  • Form (translation)
Remarks:
The work, which was attributed to Philo of Alexandria, is the Latin translation of a lost Greek original.
Edition - Translation:
  • J. Jacobson (1996) A commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum Biblicarum, with Latin text and English translation. Leiden.
  • D.J. Harrington, J. Cazeaux, P.-M. Bogaert, C. Perrot (1976) Pseudo-Philon: Les Antiquités bibliques (Sources chrétiennes, 229-230). Paris.
  • J. Charlesworth (1983) The Old Testament pseudepigrapha. Volume Two. Yale: 297-377.
Fragments:
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • F.J. Murphy (1993) Pseudo-Philo. Rewriting the Bible. Oxford.