Josephus' Jewish War and Its Slavonic Version: A Synoptic Comparison of the English Translation by H. St. J. Thackeray with the Critical Edition by N.A. Meščerskij of the Slavonic Version in the Vilna Manuscript Translated Into English by H. Leeming and L. Osinkina

Henry Leeming, B.A. in Classics (Manchester, 1949) and Russian (London, 1952), Ph.D. in Slavonic Studies (London, 1960), Reader Emeritus of London University, Corresponding Member of Slovene (SAZU) and Polish (PAU) Academies, has published extensively on comparative Slavonic lexicology and early translation technique. Kate Leeming, D.Phil. (Oxford, 1997), studied Classics at Oxford University. She specialised in Medieval Eastern Christianity and wrote a doctoral thesis on the translation of Byzantine hagiographies into Arabic. Lyubov V. Osinkina holds a Doctor's degree (1983) of St. Petersburg University, and was a student of N.A. Me erskij. In 1995 she became an Associate Member of Staff of the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Glasgow. Currently she studies at Wolfson College, Oxford University, for the degree of D.Phil. in the history of Medieval Slavonic texts.