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Book Review

Book Review BOOK REVIEW K. H. RENGSTORF, A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, vol. i. A- ∆ , Ι 973, Gld. 580, vol. ii. E-K, Ι 975, Gld. 580, vol. iii. A-II, I979, Gld. 68o, Brill Leiden. When I was an undergraduate reading Classics, Greek literature with one or two exceptions ended in the age of Aristotle and Alexander, and Latin literature in the reign of Trajan. It was only when I began to study Roman history from Augustus to Trajan that I really encountered Josephus as a serious author. Previously as a schoolboy I had met him only in the English translation of Whiston. We are now much better placed. The significance of Josephus for the political and cultural history of the Graeco-Roman world as well as for first century Judaism and Christianity is more fully and widely realised. We have the critical editions of Niese and Naber and the very serviceable Loeb trans- lation in English. Now we have this most impressive concordance whose architect is Professor KARL HEINRICH RENGSTORF, Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitz- schianum at Mfnster. He has been scrupulous to associate with himself on the title page his collaborators whose names are here repeated: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0048-1009
eISSN
1568-5365
DOI
10.1163/156853682X00105
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEW K. H. RENGSTORF, A Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, vol. i. A- ∆ , Ι 973, Gld. 580, vol. ii. E-K, Ι 975, Gld. 580, vol. iii. A-II, I979, Gld. 68o, Brill Leiden. When I was an undergraduate reading Classics, Greek literature with one or two exceptions ended in the age of Aristotle and Alexander, and Latin literature in the reign of Trajan. It was only when I began to study Roman history from Augustus to Trajan that I really encountered Josephus as a serious author. Previously as a schoolboy I had met him only in the English translation of Whiston. We are now much better placed. The significance of Josephus for the political and cultural history of the Graeco-Roman world as well as for first century Judaism and Christianity is more fully and widely realised. We have the critical editions of Niese and Naber and the very serviceable Loeb trans- lation in English. Now we have this most impressive concordance whose architect is Professor KARL HEINRICH RENGSTORF, Director of the Institutum Judaicum Delitz- schianum at Mfnster. He has been scrupulous to associate with himself on the title page his collaborators whose names are here repeated:

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Novum TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1982

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