Excerpt from The Works of Flavius Josephus, Vol. 1: Whiston's Translation
These three volumes, comprising the "Life" and "Antiquities," form the first instalment of a revision of Whiston's well-known translation of Josephus, which first saw the light in 1736, and has since that time retained the field, not so much from its intrinsic merit, as from the fact that the magnitude of the work, and the want of a good critical edition of Josephus' Greek Text, has deterred scholars from the Atlantean labour of a new translation.
In my revision there is, indeed, not much of Whiston left, though I have retained him where practicable. In revising him, I have amended his baldness, pruned and curtailed his archaisms, corrected his misspelling of names and mistranslations, and generally speaking been throughout close to the text where he has been turgid and paraphrastic. There are also frequently short omissions in Whiston's translation. These I have restored.
With regard to Whiston's Notes, some I have retained, some curtailed, some erased. Those I have omitted have been omitted on the following grounds. Many of them are puerile, many irrelevant, some based upon a less pure Greek text, some obtruding Whiston's very strange and erratic notions on religion, some absolutely incorrect. I have added a W to all notes of Whiston which I have retained. The few critical notes are my own.
Sir C. W. Wilson, one of the heroes of Khartoum, and well known earlier as one of the pioneers of Palestine Exploration, is responsible for the geographical and topographical notes.
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