Nadia Zeldes is senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

• Chapter 1: Josippon: A Source of General History and Role Models for Medieval JewsChapter 2: The Christian Reception of Sefer Josippon in the Middle AgesChapter 3: Josippon as a Source for Founding Myths: A Jewish Version of Renaissance ForgeriesChapter 4: The Book of Josippon in the Renaissance: Christian Hebraists and Religious PolemicChapter 5: The Book of Josippon in the Renaissance: Jewish Historiography and Religious PolemicChapter 6: Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Translations of the Book of JosipponChapter 7: Demolishing the Myth: The Book of Josippon under Humanistic Scrutiny

Zeldes has produced an absorbing monograph that provides an excellent introduction to Sefer Josippon and its reception history. It will certainly make for a great companion to an English critical edition of Sefer Josippon which scholarship sorely lacks.