Josippon

JOSEPH BEN GORION

Giovanni dei Farri

Venice

1544

Title and first letter historiated. Printed in double columns

Vinograd, Venice 220

One of only thirteen books published at the short-lived press of Dei Farri that operated just for one year. See D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy(1963), p. 205. 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 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) was written in Southern Italy in the year 953 C.E. See EJ, Vol. X, cols. 296-298