The Josippon (Josephus Gorionides) Volume I by David Flusser (Bialik Institute, Jerusalem, Hardcover, First Edition, 1978). Scarce.

‘Sepher Yosippon has been cited and referred to by scholars, poets, and authors as the authentic source for ancient Israel for over a millennium, until overshadowed by the twentieth-century Hebrew translations of Josephus. It is based on Pseudo Hegesippus’s fourth-century anti-Jewish summary of Josephus’s Jewish War. However, the anonymous author [a.k.a. Joseph ben Gurion Hacohen] also consulted with the Latin versions of Josephus’s works available to him. At the same time, he included a wealth of Second Temple literature as well as Roman and Christian sources. This edition is based upon the original manuscript with a photostatic reproduction of selected extracts from Josippon, with an introduction (Mercaz Zalman Shazar).’

Condition is Good (lacks dust jacket); clean covers, firm binding, no writing or highlighting (ink stamp on first front end paper); no folded or torn pages.

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