The wonderful, and most deplorable history, of the later times of the Jews : with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. : Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. / By Josephus ben Gorion. ; Whereunto is added, a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtraict [sic] of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful and the presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times, & crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.

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Publication InfoBoston, in New-England : Re-printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1718 [i.e., 1722]
Description18 unnumbered pages, 332 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : 1 portrait ; 16 cm (8vo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
Subjects
Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen--Portraits.
Jews--History.
Jerusalem--History. --Siege, 70 A.D.

Other author/creatorJoseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen.
Other author/creatorIbn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, approximately 1110-approximately 1180.
Other author/creatorJosephus, Flavius.
Other author/creatorMorwen, Peter, translator.
Other author/creatorHowell, James, 1594?-1666, editor.
Uniform titleJosippon. English.
SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 39767. ^A478749
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2226. ^A478749
General notePeter Morwen's translation, edited by James Howell, of Abraham ben David's abstract of book 3 of Sefer ha-kabalah, a disputed work known as Yosippon or Josippon, and erroneously attributed to Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, and to Flavius Josephus. The translation was first published in London, 1558, under the title: A compendious and most marveylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale. Cf. LC, DNB (Morwen), and Jewish encyc.
General noteRunning title: The wars of the Jews.
General noteEpistle dedicatory signed: James Howel.
General noteFrontispiece portrait of "Josephus Ben-Goron, the learned & warlike Jew."
General noteThough the title page is dated 1718, a bookseller's advertisement (p. [340]) is dated 1722. Edwin Wolf 2nd conjectures that the sheets (save the last page) were printed in 1718 but, owing to competion from a 1719 Boston edition of Flavius Josephus's The wars of the Jews, not published until 1722. See his: "The first book of Jewish authorship printed in America." American Jewish historical quarterly 60 (1971): 229-234.
References Bristol B627
References Shipton & Mooney 39767
References Shipton & Mooney 2226
References Rosenbach, A.S.W. Amer. Jewish bib., 16
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39767).
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2226).
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.
Other titleWars of the Jews.

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