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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSIPPON , the name usually given to a popular See also:

chronicle of Jewish See also:history from See also:Adam to the See also:age of See also:Titus, attributed to an author Josippon or See also:Joseph See also:ben Gorion.' The name, though at one See also:time identified with that of the historian See also:Josephus, is perhaps a corruption of See also:Hegesippus, from whom (according to Trieber) the author derived much of his material. The chronicle was probably compiled in See also:Hebrew See also:early in the loth See also:century, by a Jewish native of See also:south See also:Italy. The first edition was printed in See also:Mantua in 1476. Josippon subsequently appeared in many forms, one of the most popular being in Yiddish (Judaeo-See also:German), with See also:quaint illustrations. Though the chronicle is more legendary than See also:historical, it is not unlikely that some See also:good and even See also:ancient See also:sources were used by the first compiler, the Josippon known to us having passed through the hands of many interpolators. The See also:book enjoyed much See also:vogue in See also:England. See also:Peter Morvyn in 1558 translated an abbreviated version into See also:English, and edition after edition was called for. Lucien See also:Wolf has shown that the English See also:translations of the See also:Bible aroused so much See also:interest in the See also:Jews that there was a widespread See also:desire to know more about them. This led to the circulation of many See also:editions of Josippon, which thus formed a See also:link in the See also:chain of events which culminated in the readmission of the Jews to England by See also:Cromwell. (I.

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