JOSEPHUS
COMPLETE
THE WORKS
OF
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,
CONTAINING
TWENTY BOOKS OF THE JEWISH ANTIQUITIES,
SEVEN BOOKS OF THE JEWISH WAR,
AND
THE LIFE OF JOSEPHUS,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,
TOGETHER WITH
Explanatory Notes and Observations :
PARALLEL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE; THE TRUE
CHRONOLOGY OF THE SEVERAL HISTORIES; AN ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH COINS, WEIGHTS
AND MEASURES, AND A COMPLETE INDEX.
BY THE LATE
WILLIAM WHISTON, A.M.,
PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, &c., &c.
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REVISED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES,
BY THE REV. SAMUEL BURDER, A.M.,
Of Clare Hall, Cambridge; Lecturer of the
United Parishes of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and St. Leonard, Foster Lane,
London;
Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke
of Kent; and Author of Oriental Customs, &c., &c.
IN TWO VOLUMES
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NEW YORK
JOHN B. ALDEN,
PUBLISHER
1890
DESCRIPTION:
Complete in one book.
Hardcover, original blind tooled boards w/ decoration and
gilt-lettering to spine;
measures 10 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 2 1/2" thick; pp.
572, 541, (28).
Text in double column.
Frontispiece portrait of Flavius Josephus.
A complete index contains 28 pages.
The former owner's name in ink dated Jan 21st 1891 on front fly
leaf.
Cover lightly rubbed and faded, interior tanned and age-toned,
contents clean - no foxing/staining/soiling/marking.
Title of second volume cot with missing of bottom part.
No missing pages, binding tight.
Overall in very good plus shape especially for its age.
NOTE
about Flavius Josephus (January 1, AD 37 - January 1, AD
100), a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader,
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
Best known for writing The
Jewish War.
He was born in Jerusalem — then part of the Roman province of
Judea —to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
Josephus recorded the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66–70), including
the siege of Masada.
His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities
of the Jews (c. 94).
The Jewish War recounts the
Jewish revolt against Roman occupation.
Antiquities of
the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish
perspective for an ostensibly Greek and Roman audience.
These works provide valuable insight into first-century Judaism
and the background of Early Christianity.
Josephus's works are the chief source next to the Bible for the
history and antiquity of ancient Israel, and provide a significant and
independent extra-Biblical account of such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the
Great, John the Baptist, James, brother of Jesus, and possibly Jesus of
Nazareth.
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