Endnote 2 – Will the Real Josephus Please Stand Up?

Laqueur’s interpretation received widespread publicity and support, especially through the qualified endorsement of Henry St. John Thackeray, Josephus’s first translator for the Loeb Classical Library. Thackeray’s 1928 lectures on Josephus became the standard introductory textbook, Josephus: The Man and the Historian (New York: Ktav, 1967 [1929]).