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• See Josephus Studies

Hegisippus is a 4th-century "Christian" retelling of Josephus' Bellum Iudaicum, in Latin, with some original additions. The work has been doubtfully ascribed to Ambrose.

History of research

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The editio princeps of Hegesippus appeared in 1510, a few decades after the first edition of the Latin Josephus in 1470, and before the editio princeps of Josephus' Greek text in 1544.

A critically revised text appeared under the title Hegesippus qui dicitur sive Egesippus de bello Judaico ope codicis Casellani recognitus, ed. Weber, opus morte Weberi iuterruptum absolvit Caesar (Marburg, 1864)