<>It is conjectured that the size of Antiquities caused it to be transmitted in four roughly equal parts (1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20), then in half (1-10, 11-20). While this may reflect particular stages in the development, it is oversimplified. Josephus almost certainly wrote the work on 20 separate scrolls (each constituting a "book"), and as codex technology developed, the scrolls were copied into mini-codices, perhaps as many as five scrolls to one codex, or perhaps less or more, depending on when and where. What textual changes and/or corruptions took place in this long development can only be conjectured. The copies that survive are all relatively late.

For Ant 1-10, Niese prefers the readings of MSS R and O (sometimes with M₁). He considers readings of SP to be inferior, in general, despite their greater age. For Ant 11-20, Niese prefers PFV when they differ from AM₂W (MS L₂ vacillates in alignment).

2, Latin Version (perhaps made in the 6th century):

See Franz Blatt, The Latin Josephus 1: Introduction and Text, The Antiquities, Books 1-5 (Acta Jutlandica 30.1; Aarhus: Universitetsforlaget, 1958); 171 Latin MSS are listed, plus excerpts and fragments. [reviewed by Robert Browning in The Classical Review (1960)]

3. Epitomes, etc.

4. Earliest References to Josephus:


Theophilus Apol., Ad Autolycum. {1725.001} Book 3 section 23 [[ca 180 CE]]
So then let what has been said suffice for the testimony of the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and for the account of our chronology given by the writers Manetho the Egyptian, and Menander the Ephesian, and also Josephus, who wrote the Jewish war, which they waged with the Romans (<>ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἰώσηππος ὁ ἀναγράψας τὸν Ἰουδαϊκὸν πόλεμον τὸν γενόμενον αὐτοῖς ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων)

<>Irenaeus Theol., Fragmenta deperditorum operum. {1447.005} Fragment 31 [[ca 180 CE]]
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Clemens Alexandrinus Theol., Stromata. {0555.004} Book 1 chapter 21 section 147 subsection 2 line 2.
Flavius Josephus the Jew, who composed the history of the Jews, computing the periods, says that from Moses to David were five hundred and eighty-five years; from David to the second year of Vespasian, a thousand one hundred and seventy-nine; then from that to the tenth year of Antoninus, seventy-seven. So that from Moses to the tenth year of Antoninus there are, in all, two thousand one hundred and thirty-three years. [[585  + 1179 + 77 = 1841 (+ 292) = 2133]]  (Φλαύιος δὲ Ἰώσηπος ὁ Ἰουδαῖος ὁ τὰς Ἰουδαϊκὰς συντάξας ἱστορίας καταγαγὼν τοὺς χρόνους φησὶν ἀπὸ Μωυσέως ἕως Δαβὶδ ἔτη γίγνεσθαι φπεʹ, ἀπὸ δὲ Δαβὶδ ἕως Οὐεσπεσιανοῦ δευτέρου ἔτους ͵αροθʹ. εἶτα ἀπὸ τούτου μέχρι Ἀντωνίνου δεκάτου ἔτους ἔτη οζʹ, ὡς εἶναι ἀπὸ Μωυσέως ἐπὶ τὸ δέκατον ἔτος Ἀντωνίνου πάντα ἔτη ͵αωλγʹ)

Clemens Alexandrinus Theol., Fragmenta [Cyril of Alexandria] {0555.008} Fragment 51 line 7.

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Origen, Against Celsus 1.16 --
Δυνατὸν γὰρ τὸν βουλόμενον ἀναγνῶναι τὰ γεγραμμένα Φλαυίῳ Ἰωσήπῳ περὶ τῆς τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀρχαιότητος ἐν δυσίν, ὅπου πολλὴν συναγωγὴν συγγραφέων φέρει μαρτυρούντων  1.47 (Ant 18, on John the baptizer) --
Ἐν γὰρ τῷ ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ τῆς ἰουδαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας ὁ Ἰώσηπος μαρτυρεῖ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ ὡς βαπτιστῇ  <>γεγενημένῳ καὶ καθάρσιον τοῖς βαπτισαμένοις ἐπαγγελλομένῳ.
2.13 (on James the Just, brother of Jesus) --
<>οὗ ὁ υἱὸς Τίτος καθεῖλε τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, ὡς μὲν Ἰώσηπος γράφει, διὰ Ἰάκωβον τὸν δίκαιον, τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰησοῦ τοῦ