Commentary on Obadiah and a Philological Study of Enoch

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[They] are persuaded that this occurred: that the Edomite leaders denied passage to Joseph when he sought to go to Canaan to bury his father there. Instead, they were defeated in battle, and one named Zepho—the grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:15)—was led away into Egypt by Joseph. Later, having escaped Egypt by flight, he came to Annius, King of Carthage. When he was appointed as the leader of the army against the peoples of Italy, he seized a favorable opportunity and defected with his men to the Italians. He was hailed as King by them and obtained the name Janus (that is, Saturn, according to Abarbanel Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), a statesman and philosopher who argued that Romans were descendants of Edom). He founded Genoa after his own name and reigned for 50 years in Campania. See also the Tsenah u-Renah original: "Zennorenna," a popular Yiddish commentary on the Torah for laypeople, page 65, column 2.

Response: Although it would take little away from genuine original Greek: γνησίως (gnēsiōs) Christians if we allowed Bozrah A major city of Edom, often associated with judgment in prophecy to be identified with the seat of the Antichrist, or the Antichrist with an Idumean (or even Esau himself), and the Jesuits to be made "Esauites" from his offspring—since they resemble such characters in their behavior, as the Blessed Gesner Balthasar Gesner (1592–1650), a Lutheran theologian demonstrates—yet because the Jews weave such overly broad consequences from this, we will grant them nothing rashly.

We note therefore:
1. Those stories (as Buxtorf Johannes Buxtorf (1564–1629), a famous Hebraist also rightly warns in his additions to the Cosri, page 399) do not appear in the Basel edition of Joseph ben Gorion edited by Münster. Perhaps they are still to be sought in the Venetian edition, which Scaliger Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), a foundational figure in modern chronology and historical criticism observes is more complete at the beginning and the end than the Basel one.
2. Even if such a thing were found in the Venetian edition, this Joseph ben Gorion Commonly known as "Josippon," a 10th-century Hebrew history of the Jews does not have such authority among us that we would immediately agree with him. We rightly hold Flavius Josephus The famous 1st-century Roman-Jewish historian in high regard whenever he speaks the truth. However, he is not the same person as this Joseph ben Gorion.
* For Flavius's father was Matthias, and his grandfather was Joseph (Life of Josephus, page 1). The father or grandfather of the other was Gorion.
* Furthermore, Flavius Josephus distinguishes himself quite clearly from that other Joseph in The Jewish War (Book 2, Chapter 25, and Book 4, Chapter 5).
* Finally, this author often contradicts Flavius. For example, regarding the reason for the killing of John [the Baptist], compare Flavius Josephus (Antiquities, Book 18, Chapter 7) with Gorionides (Book 5, final chapter, at the beginning).

For these reasons, the history of Gorionides currently in circulation was long ago proven to be a forgery original Greek: νοθείας (notheias) by Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, Gerhard Johann Vossius, Johannes Drusius, Possevinus, Francisco Ribera, Constantijn L'Empereur, Antonius Hülsius, and others This list represents the "Who's Who" of 17th-century European biblical and historical scholarship.

3. And the lie itself, whoever its author is imagined to be, betrays and stabs itself. It is enough to produce a few absurdities to prove the point. Abarbanel says that Zepho fled from Egypt in the sixth year after the death of Jacob. He, indeed, according to Nach- The text cuts off here, likely referring to Nachmanides