(pseud.) The Wonderful, and Most Deporable History, of the Later Times of the Jews: With the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem. Which History begins where the Holy Scriptures doth end.

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 177

JOSEPHUS BEN GORION.

(pseud.) The Wonderful, and Most Deporable History, of the Later Times of the Jews: With the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem. Which History begins where the Holy Scriptures doth end.

Frontispiece engraved “portrait” of Josephus Ben-Gorion, “The Learned and Warlike Jew,” Other engravings of Vespasian and Jerusalem, and a foldout of The Battering Ram by W. Sherwin. pp. (16), 340, (10). Foxed. Sidelining in pencil. Contemporary mottled calf, spine split. 8vo. Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, p. 343, no. 1.

London: J. Wilde 1694

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $900

Once thought to be an actual eyewitness report of events during the Second Temple era, the extensive research of the late Prof. David Flusser of Hebrew University, has clearly shown that the book was composed by “Joseph ben Gorion” - (an apochryphal figure, not be confused with the authentic Joseph ben Matathias Hakohen, or Josephus Flavius, a true denizen of the Second Temple era) - and was written in Southern Italy in the year 953 C. E. The pseudonymous author is also referred to in Rabbinic literature as “Yosippon,” See EJ, Vol. X, cols. 296-9.