...In the current text the author professes to be the old Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, giving to the name "Joseph" the Greek ending "on" ("Josephon," "Joseppon," or "Josippon". His Arabic name "Yusibus" is, according to Wellhausen, identical with "Egesippus"). A gloss gives the form from the Italian, "Giuseppe." Read full entry

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