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The Role of Josephus in Bellarmine’s Controversial Theology

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  1. Robert Bellarmine, SJ, Disputationes … de controversiis Christianae fidei adversus huius temporis haereticos, tribus tomis comprehensae, Ingolstadt, pp. 1586–7.

  2. For the text see H. Denzinger, Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum, 33rd edn, Barcelona, 1965, canon 1504, p. 365. For a general discussion of the canonicity of the Apocrypha of the O.T., see Theodor Dunkelgrün’s contribution in this volume.

  3. Bellarmine, Disputationes (n. 1 above), Liber I, De Verbo Dei, caput VII, col. 24.

  4. Ibid., cols 24–5.

  5. Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne, XXIX, col. 1433A.

  6. See E. A. Gosselin, ‘A Listing of the Printed Editions of Nicholas de Lyra’, Traditio 26, 1970, pp. 399–426.

  7. Biblia sacra cum glossis, interlineari, et ordinaria: Nicolai Lyrani postilla, ac moralitatibus, Burgensis additionibus, & Thoringi replicis; in quibus, quantum laboris ac diligentiæ præter omnes ad hanc diem impressas in Vetus ac Nouum Testamentum glossarum editiones, tam in annotationibus, Scripturæ allegationibus, canonumq[ue] concordantijs, quàm in Sanctorum Patrum & aliorum sententijs atque authoritatibus citandis in marginibus præstitum sit…. 6 vols, Venice, 1588, II, fol 314r.

  8. Antiquitates XI.273–83.

  9. Antiquitates X.218. See Bellarmine, Disputationes (as in n. 1), Liber I, De Verbo Dei, caput VII, col. 25.

  10. See Bellarmine, Disputationes (n.1 above), Liber I, De Verbo Dei, caput X, col. 40.

  11. Antiquitates XI.273–83.

  12. Sixtus Senensis, Bibliotheca Sancta. ex præcipuis Catholicae Ecclesiae autoribus collecta & et in octo libros digesta, Venice, 1566, liber primus, p. 27.

  13. William Whitaker, A Disputation on Scripture against the Papists, especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, Cambridge, 1849, p. 71. Originally published as Disputatio de Sacra Scriptura contra huius temporis Papistas, imprimis R. Bellarminum& T. Stapletonum/sex quaestionibus proposita et tracta a G. Whitakero, Cambridge, 1588.

  14. Whitaker, A Disputation on Scripture against the Papists (as in n. 13 above), p. 71.

  15. See S. Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford, 2010, p. 122.

  16. Jacob Gretser, Controversiarum Roberti Bellarmini S.R.E. Cardinalis amplissimi defensio, 2 vols, Ingolstadt, pp. 1607–9. The two volumes were included as volumes VIII and IX in Jacob Gretser, Opera omnia, antehac ab ipsomet auctore accurate recognita, opusculis multis, notis, et paralipomenis pluribus, propriis locis in hac editione insertis, aucta et illustrata, nunc selecto ordine ad certos titulos revocata, Regensburg, pp. 1734–41.

  17. Gretser, Controversiarum Roberti Bellarmini defensio (n. 16 above), col. 128: ‘At quid aliud fecit Sixtus, quam quod erravit, ut ostendit Bellarminus, qui horum capitum Canonicam auctoritatem probat quoque ex Iosepho, Lib. 10. antiq. cap. 12.’ [Then follows Josephus’s claim that he had done no more than translate the Hebrew books into the Greek language].

  18. Ibid., col. 128: ‘Sed prudentius, opinor, fecero, si ipsi Iosepho, de se ipso tam sancte testanti fidem potius habeam, quam Witackero aut Lyrano, ut tempore, ita et eruditione admodum longe a Iosepho remotis.’

  19. William Chillingworth, The Works, 7th edn, London, 1719, p. 48.

  20. Ibid., p. 48.

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van Boxel, P. The Role of Josephus in Bellarmine’s Controversial Theology. Int class trad 23, 269–274 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-016-0404-8

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