'Great expectation among the learned': Edward Bernard's Josephus in Restoration Oxford

Thomas Roebuck

doi:10.1007/s12138-016-0405-7

'Great expectation among the learned': Edward Bernard's Josephus in Restoration Oxford

Thomas Roebuck

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Abstract

This article traces the problematic editorial work of the Oxford scientist and scholar Edward Bernard (1638-1697) in editing Josephus, and draws out the implications of this story for our understanding of the scholarly and polemical contexts within which Josephus was studied in the late seventeenth century.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307–325
Number of pages	19
Journal	International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Volume	23
Issue number	3
Early online date	25 Jul 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-016-0405-7
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

Keywords

Josephus
classical reception
scholarship
seventeenth-century
Oxford University
intellectual culture

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