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The wonderful, and most deplorable history, of the later times of the Jews: with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. : Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. / By Josephus ben Gorion. ; Whereunto is added, a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtraict of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, andc. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful and the presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times, and crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39767.
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2226.
- Standardized Title:
- Josippon. English.
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen--Portraits.
- Joseph ben Gorion.
- Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen.
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- History.
- Jerusalem--History--Siege, 70 A.D.
- Jerusalem.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (18 unnumbered pages, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages) : 1 portrait
- Other Title:
- Wars of the Jews.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, in New-England, : Re-printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill., 1718 [id est, 1722]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- 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.
- Running title: The wars of the Jews.
- Epistle dedicatory signed: James Howel.
- Frontispiece portrait of "Josephus Ben-Goron, the learned & warlike Jew."
- Though the title page is dated 1718, a bookseller's advertisement (pages [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.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 39767).
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 2226).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B627
- Shipton and Mooney 39767
- Shipton and Mooney 2226
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib., 16
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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