Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ibn Daud, Abraham <<ben David>>
• Josephus, Flavius
• Morwen, Peter
• Howell, James

Titel

The wonderful, and most deplorable history, of the later times of the Jews : with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem [Elektronische Ressource]

Ort / Verlag

Boston, in New-England : Re-printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill

Erscheinungsjahr

[1718 [i.e., 1722]

Link zum Volltext

• GBV - Early American imprints (ZDB-1-EAI)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bristol, B627. - Epistle dedicatory signed: James Howel. - Frontispiece portrait of "Josephus Ben-Goron, the learned & warlike Jew.". - Peter Morwen's translation, edited by James Howell, of Abraham ben David's abstract of book 3 of Sefer ha-kabalah, a disputed work known as Yosippon or Josippon, and erroneously attributed to Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, and to Flavius Josephus. The translation was first published in London, 1558, under the title: A compendious and most marveylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale. Cf. LC, DNB (Morwen), and Jewish encyc. - Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib, 16. - Running title: The wars of the Jews. - Shipton & Mooney, 2226. - Shipton & Mooney, 39767. - Though the title page is dated 1718, a bookseller's advertisement (p. [340]) is dated 1722. Edwin Wolf 2nd conjectures that the sheets (save the last page) were printed in 1718 but, owing to competion from a 1719 Boston edition of Flavius Josephus's The wars of the Jews, not published until 1722. See his: "The first book of Jewish authorship printed in America." American Jewish historical quarterly 60 (1971): 229-234
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