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Bidding Information
Lot #    4900
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 11:45:15 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Alle de Werken van Flavius Josephus
Author    [Illustrated] Flavius Josephus
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Allart en Holtrop
Publication Date    1783
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    9 volumes, quarto, 208:128 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in uniform half cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Rare - No sales in ABPC, no copy in major collections.

Over 40 woodcut illustrations.
          
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
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Dutch
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica