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Bidding Information
Lot #    12252
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:50:09 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Josephus
Author    [Illustrated] Flavius Josephus
City    Strassburg
Publisher    Konrad Lautenbach
Publication Date    1603
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    617-946, [40] pp., (final part of a larger work) 324:209 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern half cloth boards. Illustrated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Flavius Josephus (b. 37/8 A.D.), a Jewish priest and Pharisee, was put in command of the Jewish resistance in Galilee at the time of revolt against Rome, but was captured at Jotapata; his life was spared when he predicted that Vespasian would become emperor. His works are an indispensable source on first century Jewish life and history: the Jewish Antiquities explaining to the Romans the history of the Jews from Creation to the revolt of A.D.66, the Jewish Wars explaining the history of the wars from the Maccabean revolt to 66 A.D. to the Mesopotamian Jews, and the Contra Apion defending Judaism against the misstatements of anti-Semitic writers from the third century B.C. to Apion.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica