Josephus, Translated and Transformed: From the 1st to 21st Century

Exhibition
  • Add to Calendar 2024-10-27 17:00:00 2024-12-17 16:00:00 Josephus, Translated and Transformed: From the 1st to 21st Century Doheny Memorial Library America/Los_Angeles public
October 28, 2024 - December 18, 2024
Doheny Memorial Library

Title page of a French edition of "Jewish Antiquities" by Flavius Josephus, published in 1681.
Josephus, Translated and Transformed

Titus Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu) was a first-century Roman-Jewish historian whose works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Palestine. This exhibition highlights editions and translations of Flavius Josephus' works spanning 400 years of printing from the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library. The exhibit also highlights literary and artistic adaptations of Josephus' work.

View the display at Special Collections, on the second floor of Doheny Memorial Library, from October 28 to December 18, 2024. Please contact Taylor Dwyer, Curator of Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, for more information.