Josephus
Josephus
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Josephus
约瑟夫斯 (Josephus)
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Jewish historian.brief
犹太历史学家。简介
Jewish historian. A Syriac translation of the 6th Book of his ‘Jewish War’, entitled ‘On the destruction of Jerusalem’, features under his name at the end of the Ambrosian ms. of the Peshitta OT (7a1) as ‘the 5th Book of Maccabees’ (f. 320v–330v), since it follows I–IV Maccabees; it is also found in one other early Peshitta ms. (8g1). Quotations from other books of the ‘Jewish War’ are found especially in the Syriac translation of Eusebius ’s Theophania and in Sargis the Stylite ’s ‘Disputation with a Jew’; their presence in the latter suggests that the whole work may once have been translated. In Syriac mss. the name of Aesop became corrupted into Iosipos; hence the ‘Catalogue’ of ʿAbdishoʿ attributes ‘Fables’ to Josephus.
犹太历史学家。其《犹太战记》(Jewish War) 第六卷的叙利亚文译本，题为《论耶路撒冷的毁灭》(On the destruction of Jerusalem)，以其名义出现在别西大译本旧约 (Peshitta OT) 的安布罗修手稿 (Ambrosian ms.) (7a1) 末尾，题为《马加比五书》(5th Book of Maccabees)（f. 320v–330v），因为它紧随《马加比一书》至《马加比四书》(I–IV Maccabees) 之后；它也见于另一份早期别西大译本手稿 (Peshitta ms.) (8g1) 中。《犹太战记》(Jewish War) 其他卷的引文尤其见于优西比乌 (Eusebius) 的《神显录》(Theophania) 叙利亚文译本以及柱行者塞尔吉斯 (Sargis the Stylite) 的《与犹太人的辩论》(Disputation with a Jew) 中；它们在后者中的存在表明，整部作品可能曾经被翻译过。在叙利亚文手稿 (Syriac mss.) 中，伊索 (Aesop) 的名字被讹误为约西波斯 (Iosipos)；因此，阿卜迪舒 (ʿAbdishoʿ) 的《目录》(Catalogue) 将《寓言》(Fables) 归于约瑟夫斯 (Josephus) 名下。
References
P. Bedjan, Homiliae Selectae Mar-Jacobi Sarugensis, vol. 1 (1905; repr. 2006), 770–837. (Text taken from 7a1; a poor earlier partial edition with GT was by H. Kottek, 1886).
A. M. Ceriani, Translatio syra Pescitto Veteris Testamenti ex codice Ambrosiana sec. fere VI photolithographice edita (1876). (reproduction of 7a1)
A. P. Hayman, The Disputation of Sergius the Stylite with a Jew (CSCO 339; 1973), 32*–47*.
A. Whealey, ‘The Testimonium Flavianum in Syriac and Arabic’, NTS 53 (2007), 573–90.
Citation
Sebastian P. Brock. 2011. “Josephus.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Josephus.