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Schlatter, Zur Topographie und Geschichte Palästinas (Stuttgart, 1893).

Bloch, Die Quellen des Flavius Josephus (Leipzig, 1879).

Nussbaum, Observationen in Flavius Josephus (Göttingen, 1875).

Destinon, Die Chronologie des Josephus (Kiel, 1880) and Die Quellen des Josephus (1882).

Büchler, A., Les Sources de Josèphe, R.E.J. xxii. and xxiv., and The Sources of Josephus for the History of Syria, J.Q.R. ix.

Holscher, G., Die Quellen des Josephus, etc. (Leipzig, 1904).

For the relation of Josephus to the Bible and Jewish tradition, the following monographs may be consulted:

Duschak, Josephus und die Tradition (Vienna, 1864).

Olitzki, Flavius Josephus und die Halacha (Berlin, 1885).

Schlatter, Die hebräischen Namen bei Josephus (Gütersloh, 1913).

Grünbaum, Die Priester-Gesetze bei Fl. Josephus (1887).

Poznanski, Ueber die religionsphilosophischen Anschauungen des Fl. Josephus (Berlin, 1887).

The apologetic works of Josephus are especially dealt with by:

Friedlaender, M., Die Geschichte der jüdischen Apologetik (Vienna, 1906).

Müller, J.G., Des Fl. Josephus Schrift gegen den Apion (Basel, 1877).

Gutschmid, Kleine Schriften, iv. (Leipzig, 1893).

The work of M. Théodore Reinach, Textes des auteurs grecs et romains rélatifs au judaisme, is a very useful collection of the pagan accounts of Jewish life which Josephus was seeking to refute.

Among general appreciations of Josephus, there may be mentioned those of:

Edersheim, in Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography.

Foakes-Jackson, in the Jewish Review, iv.

Margoliouth, in his edition of Whiston's translation.

Niese, in the Historische Zeitschrift, lxxvi.

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERRING TO THE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS

Ant.: The Antiquities of the Jews. B.J.: The Wars (Bellum Judaicum) C. Ap.: Against Apion (Contra Apionem)

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