PREFACE

XI. To commend the Jewish nation to the Gentiles:

1. He greatly praises their hospitality and kindness toward other nations.
2. He also studiously records the generosity of foreign princes toward the Jews.

XII. Additionally, for the sake of the Greeks and Romans, Josephus considers that sacred Poetry is mostly contained within the meters of those nations. original: "sacram Poësin fere contineri metris earum gentium" See Jean Le Clerc's Letters of Jerome, page 311. So says he.

Small treatises of a similar subject, studiously composed by Johann Baptist Ott original: "J. B. Ottio" and sent to us by that most learned man, were overseen by the most Reverend Friedrich Adolph Lampe, a very celebrated Professor of Theology at the University of Utrecht original: "Ultrajectina Academia". They contain Various Omissions by Flavius Josephus, and furthermore a Century of Passages of the New Testament having something in common with Josephan phrases or histories, etc. This last part contains a specimen of a most useful labor, should anyone wish to undertake it in the manner of George Raphel Raphel was known for using classical authors like Xenophon to explain the language of the New Testament.. Just as Raphel collected things from Polybius, Xenophon, and Arrian which serve to illustrate the New Testament, one might also read Josephus with accurate industry; for we have very often discovered while reading that he agrees greatly in his phrasing and words with the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament.

The author sent these observations to be printed in order to whet the appetite of the learned original: "salivam literatis moveat," literally 'to move the saliva' of the literate, an idiom meaning to excite interest. with the mention and promise of a more laborious Lexicon of Josephus. In this lexicon, according to the alphabetical order on page 320 at the end, he says he has gathered whatever he believed could bring light to the Holy Scriptures, either from Josephus or about Josephus, and thus it would be a sort of Josephan Concordance. His words are as follows:

We give this 'Century' A 'century' here refers to a collection of one hundred observations. at least as a specimen; for six hundred other passages of the New Testament Scriptures could be presented in their pure state, upon which light is shed either from Josephus or from the Scripture itself. Our greater labors, from which we have excerpted these, are composed in the manner of a Lexicon and form a proper and large volume in Folio. It is like a Concordance, filled with infinite observations, especially in those matters pertaining to Geography original: "Geographiam", to which little or nothing is lacking; then those things which illustrate ancient Numismatics The study of ancient coins., for no fewer than a thousand Hebrew, Greek, and Roman coins are recorded, all of which can be referred to this Author either absolutely or in some manner. You have a specimen of the Lexicon itself on page 319, from which the plan and method of this most excellent man can be made clear to all. But in the edition of that book, it must be observed that first all the passages of Josephus, which were printed from the old editions before Hudson, ought to be compared to the newest one, so that not only the Books, Chapters, and Pages, but also the words correspond. Furthermore, no coins should be cited except those that serve to illustrate Josephus; and these should, if possible, show many hitherto unpublished examples. The coins themselves should be engraved in their proper size, not as if they were uniform pictures, nor inferior to the original models—in which matter I see so many errors committed due to the ignorance of craftsmen and the greed of printers, that many times (indeed sometimes at the first printing) they show scarcely a shadow of resemblance to the original.

Those works of Ott appear on pages 305–323.

There follows then, on pages 324–329, a Dissertation by Christoph Cellarius against that most famous innovator Jean Hardouin Hardouin was a controversial scholar who claimed many ancient texts and coins were medieval forgeries; Cellarius is here defending Josephus's historical reliability against him., in which he vindicates the history of Flavius Josephus regarding the Herods from the suspicion of being spurious. Finally, a most learned work closes the line: Christian Nold's Idumaean History, or a treatise on the Life and Deeds of the Herods, pages 333–401. Those things which remain we have mentioned above, namely the Spanheimiana Works or notes by Ezechiel Spanheim. and certain comparisons of manuscripts.

Indices close the entire work: specifically, an index of Authors cited by Josephus; an index of Greek Words occurring in Josephus that are more worthy of note; a Geographic index original: "Chorographicus" of Regions, Cities, Places, etc., much supplied and amended from the papers of Spanheim, just as the index of Subjects which follows benefited greatly from the industry of that incomparable man. The fifth and last index contains the names of Writers to whom some light is shed in the Notes.