AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Josephus.

Loeb Edition.

Josephus. With an English translation by H. St. J. Thackeray, M.A., and Ralph Marcus, Ph.D.

Vol. I. The Life; Against Apion.
Another copy.

Vol. II. The Jewish War, books I–III.

Vol. III. The Jewish War, books IV–VII.

Vol. IV. Jewish Antiquities, books I–IV.

Vol. V. Jewish Antiquities, books V–VIII.

Vol. VI. Jewish Antiquities, books IX–XI.

Vol. VII. Jewish Antiquities, books XII–XIV.

Vol. VIII. Jewish Antiquities, books XV–XVII.

Vol. IX. Jewish Antiquities, books XVIII–XX; general index to volumes I–IX.

English Translations.

Whiston’s Translation.

The translation of William Whiston is the most often reprinted and therefore the most often quoted. It is frequently found in thousand-page double-column editions by otherwise unknown publishers, doubtless peddled by canvassing agents, and can still be had in that form today. The copies here are chosen for their excellent scans.

Complete Works of Josephus. A new and revised edition based on Havercamp’s translation, with notes, comments and references from Whiston, &c. New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., [no date; about 1900]. —This is the translation usually called Whiston’s; the ascription to Havercamp seems to be a mistake of the publisher. Sigebertus or Sijvert or Siwart or Syvert Havercamp edited the edition of the Greek text on which Whiston’s translation was based. These volumes have good legible single-column text.

Vol. I. Antiquities of the Jews, books I–VIII.

Vol. II. Antiquities of the Jews, books IX–XVI.

Vol. III. Antiquities of the Jews, books XVII–XX; Life; Wars of the Jews, books I–II.
Another copy.

Vol. IV. Wars of the Jews, books III–VII; Against Apion.

The Works of Flavius Josephus: comprising the Antiquities of the Jews; a History of the Jewish Wars; and Life of Flavius Josephus, Written by Himself. Translated from the original Greek, by William Whiston, A.M. Hartford, Conn.: The S. S. Scranton Co., 1905.
Philadelphia: David McKay, no date; apparently printed from the same stereotype plates as the Scranton edition.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, no date; again from the same plates.

The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the celebrated Jewish historian. Comprising the history and antiquities of the Jews, with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, and the sacrifice of Isaac, together with a discourse on Hades, or Hell. With his autobiography. Translated by William Whiston. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago: John E. Potter & Co., [no date; dated 1895 by librarian].

The Complete Works of the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, Flavius Josephus: comprising The Antiquities of the Jews, A History of the Jewish Wars, three dissertations concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, &c., &c., and The Life of Josephus written by himself. Translated by William Whiston. With a sequel to the history of the Jews, continued to the present time. London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [no date].

The Works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior. Translated by William Whiston, A.M. Cincinnati: E. Morgan and Co., 1844.

The Works of Flavius Josephus. Whiston’s translation revised by the late Rev. A. R. Shilleto, M.A. London: George Bell and Sons, various.

Vol. I. Life of Josephus; Antiquities of the Jews, books I–VI.

Vol. II. Antiquities of the Jews, books VII–XIII.
Another copy.

Vol. III. Antiquities of the Jews, book XIV to end.

Vol. IV. The Jewish War, books I–IV.

Vol. V. The Jewish War, boos V–VII; Against Apion, books I, II.

Other Translations.

The Works of Josephus. With great diligence Revised and Amended, according to the Excellent French Translation of Monsieur Arnauld Landilly. Also the Embassy of Philo Judæus to the Emperor Caius Caligula. Never translated before. With the references of the Scriptures, a new map of the Holy Land, and divers Copper-Plates serving to illustrate the History. London: H. Herringman [etc.], 1683.

The Works of Flavius Josephus which are extant. Translated from the original Greek, according to Dr. Hudson’s edition, by John Court, Gent. 1733.

The Wars of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus: translated into English by Sir Roger L’Estrange, Knight. Manchester: J. Harrop, 1767.

The Works of Flavius Josephus. The whole newly translated from the original Greek, by Ebenezer Thompson, D.D. and William Charles Price, LL.D. London: Fielding and Walker, 1777.

Vol. I. Life; Antiquities of the Jews, books I–XVII.

Vol. II. Antiquities of the Jews, books XVIII–end; A Defence of the Jewish Antiquities, in Answer to Apion; The Wars of the Jews.

The Works of Josephus; A new translation; by the Rev. Robert Traill, D.D., M.R.I.A. With notes, explanatory essays, and pictorial illustrations. Edited by Isaac Taylor. —The Rev. Dr. Traill never translated more than the Jewish War, having died “a victim to the extraordinary exertions made by him to alleviate the sufferings of his Parishioners, during the famine and pestilence which then devastated the south of Ireland”; and “although he had made much progress in preparing the Antiquities and the two Books Against Apion for the press, the state of the manuscript was not such as would warrant an announcement of the ‘entire Works of Josephus’ as forthcoming.”

Vol. I. The Jewish War, books I–II. London and New York: George Virtue, 1847. With many plates and long essays explaining them.
Another copy, missing title page and preface, but including frontispiece missing from copy above.

Vol. II (inferior Google scan). —The whole was originally issued in fascicles, and we have found good scans of Volume II only in that form. The plates and accompanying essays are scattered among the fascicles. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1851.

Part V. Books III, IV (beginning).

Part VI. Books IV (conclusion) to V (beginning).

Part VII. Book V (conclusion) to book VII (beginning).

Part VII. Book VII, concluded.

Supplementary Part. Essays concluded, index.

The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus: A new translation, by the late Rev. Robert Traill, D.D., M.R.I.A. Edited, with notes, by Isaac Taylor. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1858. —The translation printed without the plates and accompanying essays.