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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Review of Lukas, Josephus Latinus, Antiquitates Judaicae Buch 6 und 7

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Josephus Latinus, Antiquitates Judaicae Buch 6 und 7: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar zur Übersetzungstechnik.
Randolf Lukas, Josephus Latinus, Antiquitates Judaicae Buch 6 und 7: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar zur Übersetzungstechnik. Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 112. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783868219692.

Review by
Scott G. Bruce, Fordham University. sbruce3@fordham.edu

... This edition of Books 6 and 7 of the Latin Antiquities is nothing short of revelatory. Lukas’s enduring contribution to the field is twofold. First, after decades of inertia following the harsh criticism of Blatt’s edition, he has rejuvenated the study of the Latin Antiquities by establishing the Latin texts for two more books of Josephus’s history. Second and more importantly, in his systematic reevaluation of the entire manuscript tradition of the Latin Antiquities, Lukas has single-handedly provided a new foundation for the study of the Latin legacy of Josephus’s Antiquities in the western Middle Ages. ...

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