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Sefer Joseph Hamekane

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Sefer Joseph Hamekane the Book of Joseph the Official is a 13th-century Jewish apologetic text. The primary edition (in Hebrew) is by Judah Rosenthal (Jerusalem, 1970). The book is also sometimes translated Book of Joseph the Zealot.

The book is the third oldest of a series of treatises containing selected rabbinical translations of Matthew; Book of Nestor (c. 900), Milhamot HaShem (1170), Nizzahon Vetus (c. 1280), leading to Ibn Shaprut's Touchstone, and Jean du Tillet's Hebrew Matthew, and Rahabi Ezekiel's Hebrew Matthew of the 1750s.

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