id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-16375	Kampianaki, Theofili	Perceptions of Flavius Josephus in the Medieval Greek and Latin Literary Traditions	2020	27	.pdf	application/pdf	9767	362	49	If you wish to know the punishment of the sinning Jews, who raged at Christ, read the history of Josephus—a Jewish man, but one who loved truth—about the sack, so that you will know about such a God-sent punishment that the entire time has not known since when and as long as men [have lived].1 This is the vehement reply of the theologian Isidore of Pelousion (A.D. 360/370–d. after 433) to the epistle of a friend who was interested in reading about how Jews had been historically punished for the crucifixion of Christ.2 Isidore instructed his friend to read an author who, according to him, was committed to writing the truth even though he was a Jew: the historian Flavius Josephus (37–100),3 a writer highly esteemed and fre- quently consulted by Christians in the late antique and medieval 1 Isidore of Pelousion Ep. It should be added that medieval Greek and (Leiden 2014); J. Edmondson et al. (eds.), Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome (Ox- ford 2005); J. Sievers et al. (eds.), Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond (Leiden 2005); T. Rajak, Josephus: The Historian and his Society2 (London 2002).	cache/grbs-16375.pdf	txt/grbs-16375.txt