Tuesday, November 05, 2024

A Josephus apocryphon on Hades

ROGER PEARSE: Pseudo-Josephus, “A Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades” – an investigation AND More on Pseudo-Josephus, “Discourse to the Greeks on Hades.”

The discussion is technical, but Roger includes a link to a translation of the text. It is worth reading as a late-antique, clearly Christian, treatise on Hades addressed to "the Greeks." It looks like attribution to Josephus is a transmission error rather than the intent of the author (who may have been Hippolytus).

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