Timeline for Are there any extant original first-century manuscripts of any of Josephus' works?
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| Apr 3, 2021 at 15:26 | comment | added | Jan | @kimchi lover: I think much of Philodemus' work has been preserved as original copies. Given that museums around the world have a number of 1st or 2nd century paintings, I would be quite surprised if there were not also a number of manuscripts. | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 12:31 | comment | added | kimchi lover | @Jan I meant, original manuscripts, the author's first written copy, not just an old copy. Do we have any examples of Augustus's handwriting? | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 11:54 | comment | added | Jan | @kimchi lover: Stone inscriptions and clay tablets can survive quite a long time. Papyrus too in the right climate. E.g. one of the most complete copies of Augustus' Res Gestae is an inscription from the 1st century. | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 8:33 | answer | added | Tatarize | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 22:19 | answer | added | Doc Mathetes | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 21:55 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | It was a big deal when missing parts of Mark Twain's Huck Finn manuscript were found in the 1990's, and that work was only 100 years old at the time! Expecting the "original manuscript" might still exist for a work thousands of years old is hopelessly optimistic. | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 21:16 | answer | added | user27618 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | kimchi lover | I don't think there are any extant original first-century manuscripts of anyone's work. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 17:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/530413700255997952 | ||
| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:48 | history | edited | Samuel Russell |
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| Nov 5, 2014 at 20:47 | comment | added | Samuel Russell | On reflection, good migration. Fundamentally a question about source provenance of a historical source. | |
| Nov 5, 2014 at 18:29 | history | migrated | from hermeneutics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Oct 31, 2014 at 22:08 | comment | added | Dɑvïd | The short answer is "no". The link you've already seen has reliable information. You might have also already seen the Thackeray's brief introduction to the mss in the first volume of the Loeb Josephus volumes, but include the link, just in case this isn't familiar. | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 23:50 | comment | added | Der Übermensch | I'm afraid the question seems unrelated to biblical hermeneutics. Nevertheless, tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/josephus_antiquities.htm | |
| Oct 30, 2014 at 23:00 | history | asked | Thomas Kemper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |