Bidspirit auction | JOSEFO (Flávio). HISTOIRE des Juifs.

JOSEFO (Flávio). HISTOIRE des Juifs. A Paris. 1773. - JOSEFO (Flávio) HISTOIRE des Juifs . Écrite par Flavius Joseph, Sous le Titre de Antiquités Judaiques, Traduite Sur l’Original Grec, revu sur divers Manuscrits, par Mr. Arnault d’Andilly. - Nouvelle Édition. A Paris: Chez Cailleau, Chardon, Gissey, Bordelet, Henry, 1773. 5 v.: il.; 175 mm. One of the numerous eighteenth-century reprints of the celebrated French translation by Robert Arnauld d'Andilly (1589-1674), brother of the Great Arnauld and a central figure at Port-Royal, who published his version of the Antiquités judaïques in 1667 – the first French translation made directly from the Greek original. Arnauld d'Andilly's translation was authoritative in France for about two centuries, having aroused the enthusiasm of Mme de Sévigné, who in 1675 recommended it to her daughter as one of the most beautiful readings possible. Flavius Josephus (Jerusalem, c. 37 – Rome, c. 100), a Jewish historian from a priestly and Pharisaic family, became famous from a young age for his erudition. Sent on an embassy to Rome in 64 to obtain the pardon of priests condemned by the proconsul Felix, he later organized Jewish resistance in Galilee, was captured in the fortress of Jotapata in 67 and handed over as a prisoner to Vespasian, to whom, by predicting the principate, he managed to gain freedom and the favor of the new emperor and his son Titus, adopting the gentile surname Flavius. The Antiquities of the Jews , in twenty books, is his most extensive historical work: a history of the Jewish people from the creation of the world to the reign of Nero, still constituting today one of the irreplaceable primary sources for understanding Jewish religion and society in the time of Jesus Christ and for the history of relations between Judea and Rome. This small-format, five-volume edition is adorned with six intaglio engravings. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate