Joannes JOSEPHUS.
77. JOSEPHUS.
Works
Revision of the Septuagint
Theodoret (
Dissert. MS. in Prophetas et Editiones, and
Quaestio xxiv. in Exod. and
Quaestio x. in Josuam) mentions a Joannes Josephus (
Ἰωάννης Ἰώσηπος) as having revised the Septuagint.
Hody thinks it probable that he was the same as Josephus, a Christian [JOSEPHUS, No. 12], and author of a work extant in MS., entitled
Ὑπομνηστικὸν,
Hypomnesticum s. Commonitorium, whom Cave (
Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 397) places in the year 420.
Further Information
Hody,
de Biblior. Textibus Originalibus, 4.3.3; Usher,
de Edit. LXX. Interpret. c. vii. p. 78; Hottinger,
Dissertationum Theologico Philologicarum Fasciculus, Dis. III. 100.60.9; Fabric.
Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. p. 715; Cave,
l.c.