The exceptional influence and popularity enjoyed by DEH from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, and its critical interface with Jewish historiography as a work both based on and source of major Jewish histories, suggest that this work is important for scholars of pre-modern Judaism and/or Christianity to know. DEH’s afterlives represent a treasure-trove of literary-historical data for studying the (largely conceptual) Jewish-Christian interface in premodernity. Perhaps most interesting of all is that DEH commanded concerted and widespread attention from readers, Christian and Jewish, starting just decades after the penning of the work up through the early-20th century, when scholarly interest fizzles out. ...An excellent, brief introduction to Pseudo-Hegesippus' De excidio Hierosolymita, an important, but much-neglected, late-antique, Christian, Latin reworking of Josephus' Jewish War.
I noted Carson Bay's book, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus (CUP, 2023) here with links.
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