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Thackery's Lexicon to Josephus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2011

Arthur Darby Nock
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

The death of Dr. Henry St. John Thackeray in June 1929 was a great grief to his many friends on both sides of the Atlantic. As a man and as a scholar he had rare and admirable qualities, and it is typical of him both as a man and as a scholar that when he undertook to make a translation of Josephus, of which four volumes have already appeared in the Loeb Classical Library, he first prepared a special lexicon for his own guidance, with no thought of printing it. The wise liberality of the Alexander Kohut Memorial Publication Fund, to which the work was introduced by Professor Cadbury, has now made possible the present publication, which has a form worthy of its contents. The first fascicule was seen through the press by its author, and arrangements have been made for the completion of the enterprise. It is of uncommon excellence.

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Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1932

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References

1 A Lexicon to Josephus, compiled by Henry St. John Thackeray, M. A., Hon. D. D. Oxford and Durham, published for the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, by the Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation. Part I. A to ἀργός Pp. x + 80, folio. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 13 Rue Jacob, Paris VIe, 1930 (issued 2 July 1931). 60 francs.

2 22,1923); known to me from O. Weinreich, Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, XXIII, 1925, p. 136; Pfister, Bursians Jahresberichte, 229,1930, p. 310; and U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit, I, 562 (à propos of a papyrus example).