Late Antique Historiography

Jewish antiquities

Title(s):
  • Jewish antiquities
  • Antiquitates Judaicae
    (Antiquitates Judaicae, Jewish antiquities)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-the beginning of the Jewish war
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Sacred history
  • Form (translation)
Remarks:
This is a translation of the Jewish antiquities by Flavius Josephus. It was made at the behest of Cassiodorus (Institutions 1.17), and includes in addition the two books of Contra Apionem.
Edition - Translation:
  • F. Blatt (1958) The Latin Josephus I. Aarhus.
  • D.B. Levenson, T.R. Martin (2014) 'The Latin translations of Josephus on Jesus, John the Baptist, and James. Critical texts of the Latin translation of the Antiquities and Rufinus’ translation of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical history based on manuscripts and early printed editions'. Journal for the Study of Judaism 45: 1-79.
  • J. Frobenius (1524) Flavii Josephi opera. Basel.
  • R.M. Pollard (2013) The Latin Josephus Project: https://sites.google.com/site/latinjosephus/
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Bibliography:
  • K. Kletter (2005) The uses of Josephus: Jewish history in medieval Christian tradition. Diss. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  • T. Leoni (2007) 'Translations and adaptations of Josephus' writings in Antiquity and the Middle Ages'. Ostraka 16: 481-492.
  • T. Leoni (2016) 'The text of the Josephan corpus'. In: A companion to Josephus, ed. H. Howell Chapman - Z. Rodgers (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). Chichester: 307-321.
  • D.B. Levenson, T.R. Martin (2016) 'The ancient Latin translations of Josephus'. In: A companion to Josephus, ed. H. Howell Chapman - Z. Rodgers (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). Chichester: 322-345.
  • H. Schreckenberg (1972) Die Flavius-Josephus-Tradition in Antike und Mittelalter. Leiden: 58-61.