Lewis-Gibson : History

Lewis-Gibson

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Sefer Josippon. The text on f. 1 contains the opening of chapter 54 (the fall of Antipater the wicked), lines 1-54, according to Flusser’s edition (1981). The text on f. 2 contains the end of chapter 55 (the death of Herod) and the beginning of chapter 56 (the days of Archelaus): ch. 55, lines 73-75, ch 56, lines 1-48, according to Flusser’s edition. The text contains various readings that are not found in Flusser’s list of textual variants. According to Hurvitz (2006), the text corresponds to the Mantua edition. The orthography of the text is unusually full (e.g. the plene writing of עם as עים).</p>