Works attributed to josephus
The s0- called Fourth Book of Maccabees, or Iep! abroxpdropos Aoyicuod, was attributed to Josephus by Eusebius (HZ#£ iii. 10) and other Patristic writers. This rhetorical exercise has some points in common ‘with Josephus; but that he was the author of it is disproved by the fact that it appears as an anony- mous work in many MSS, by differences of style, and by the fact that it is based on 2 Maccabees, a book of which Josephus shows no knowledge in the Antiquities.
The work, epi 700 ravrés[Ilepi THs TOU wavrds airias, or Ilepl rijs rod mavrés ovalas], ascribed by Photius (Bib/., Cod. 48) to Josephus, is of Christian origin, and its author is almost cer- tainly Hippolytus. On the alleged work of Jose- phus on the Seleucid dynasty, see above, p. 465. iii, THE BIBLE OF JOSEPHUS AND HIS TREAT-
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