Sefer Yosippon (Josippon)

Abstract

While Flavius Josephus's works were being used extensively in Christian circles, there is almost complete silence in Jewish circles until the tenth century when a Hebrew paraphrase, the Sefer Yosippon, appeared in Southern Italy, relating the history of the Jews from the time of Daniel and Esther to the destruction of the Second Temple. Sefer Yosippon text was to become the most influential Hebrew historical work of the medieval period. This chapter provides an introduction to the Sefer Yosippon, outlining issues relating to which sources the author used and the location and time of its writing, and then surveys the history of its reception and translation, while providing a review of scholarship.

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