Author

Flavius Josephus(c. 37–c. 100 CE)

Flavius Josephus is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1835). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Notebook January 1835, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1835
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Josephus, of whom Eichhorn speaks / with much respect, gives no very / decisive testimony as to the canon, / he closes it in the reign of / Artaxerxes Longimanus. […] Josephus, Philo / and the Talmud speak of it as / such but this opinion in their day / might be occasioned by finding it / the prologue to his works. / […] Josephus names the Egyptian princess / daughter of Pharaoh / [Thermutis?]”
Notebook January 1835 · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Flavius Josephus

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1835—

Notebook January 1835

pp. 13, 25, 26–27
“Josephus, of whom Eichhorn speaks / with much respect, gives no very / decisive testimony as to the canon, / he closes it in the reign of / Artaxerxes Longimanus.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.