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Encyclopedia Britannica



JOSIPPON

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 521 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JOSIPPON , the name usually given to a popular chronicle of Jewish history from
Adam
  to the age of Titus, attributed to an author Josippon or Joseph ben Gorion.' The name, though at one time identified with that of the historian Josephus, is perhaps a corruption of
Hegesippus
 , from whom (according to Trieber) the author derived much of his material. The chronicle was probably compiled in Hebrew early in the loth
century
 , by a Jewish native of
south
  Italy. The first edition was printed in Mantua in 1476. Josippon subsequently appeared in many forms, one of the most popular being in Yiddish (Judaeo-German), with quaint illustrations. Though the chronicle is more legendary than historical, it is not unlikely that some good and even ancient sources were used by the first compiler, the Josippon known to us having passed through the hands of many interpolators. The book enjoyed much vogue in England. Peter Morvyn in 1558 translated an abbreviated version into
English
 , and edition after edition was called for. Lucien
Wolf
  has shown that the
English
  translations of the Bible aroused so much
interest
  in the
Jews
  that there was a widespread desire to know more about them. This led to the circulation of many editions of Josippon, which thus formed a link in the
chain
  of events which culminated in the readmission of the
Jews
  to England by Cromwell. (I. A.)


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