Pseudo-Hegesippus
Sign in to savePseudo-Hegesippus is the conventional name of the anonymous author of De excidio Hierosolymitano ("On the Destruction of Jerusalem"), a fourth-century Christian Latin adaptation of The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. The text itself may also be referred to as "Pseudo-Hegesippus".
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- Named after
- Hegesippus
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- writing language
- Latin
- different from
- Hegesippus
- date of birth
- 0400-00-00
- date of death
- 0400-00-00
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Pseudo-Hegesippus is the conventional name of the anonymous author of De excidio Hierosolymitano ("On the Destruction of Jerusalem"), a fourth-century Christian Latin adaptation of The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. The text itself may also be referred to as "Pseudo-Hegesippus".
==The text== Although the author is sometimes termed a "translator", he never makes a claim to be translating either literally or freely. Rather, he considered himself an historian who used Josephus as his main source. The work is certainly too free to be considered a translation, as he frequently paraphrases and abridges. In addition, he adds passages based on other sources. As a whole it suggests the work of a rhetorician.
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