The wonderful and most deplorale [!] history of the latter times of the Jews : with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem : Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures end

Alternate Title:

Wonderful and most deplorable history of the Jews; Wars of the Jews

Name:

Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, approximately 1110-approximately 1180; Morwen, Peter; Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen

Timespan:

168 B.C.-135 A.D.; Siege, 70 A.D.

Date:

1819

Identifier:

2010.10.02.00003; (OCoLC)ocm04140398; (OCoLC)4140398; 2392146; (PU)2392146-penndb-Voyager

Language:

English

Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Allen, Wm. (autograph) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Publisher:

Printed by Bill Drake & Co

Subject:

Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.; Jews; History

Resource Type:

Text

Physical Description:

299 pages; 18 cm

Geographic Subject:

Jerusalem -- History -- Siege, 70 A.D.

Related Place:

United States -- Vermont -- Bellows Falls.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Peter Morwen's translation of the Latin version of Abraham ben David's abstract of a disputed work know as Yosippon or Josippon, sometimes listed under the pseudonym Josephus ben Gorion. The translation was first published in London, 1558, under the title: A compendious and moste marveylous history of the latter times of the Jewes commune weale. cf. Oxford, Univ. Bodleian libr., Cat. librorum hebraeorum, col. 1759; Jewish encyc., v. 7, p. 260.; Running title: The wars of the Jews.; Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.; Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2010.10.02.00003

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, DS116 .Y6 1819; Library at the Katz Center, Stacks, DS116 .Y6 1819

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)