The Medieval Church · c. 953
The Josippon
Anonymous, in southern Italy
What it is
Jewish history from Adam to the fall of Masada, built out of a Latin Josephus and other sources and written as though by Josephus himself. It reorders, adds, and quietly removes the passage about Jesus.
Why it lasted
For most Jews of the Middle Ages this was Josephus, and it stayed in print in Hebrew and Yiddish into the twentieth century. Christian Hebraists read it too, and its differences from the Greek Josephus fuelled centuries of argument about the Testimonium.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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