Category:Hegesippus (text)

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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

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)