"Deze uitgave behandelt de geschiedenis van de verwoesting van Jeruzalem tot ±1700 (...) Velen menen dat de twee Vervolgen bij één van de uitgaven van Flavius Josephus' werken behoren, dit is echter niet het geval." Poortman, 11b, Boekzaal van de werken van Flavius Josephus in de Nederlandse taal, 265 Basnage. 'Jacques Christian (also called Basnage de Beauval; 1653-1725), Protestant divine and historian. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he accepted a call as pastor to Rotterdam (1686) and later to The Hague (1691). He wrote several books, the most famous being L'histoire et la réligion des Juifs depuis Jésus Christ jusqu'á present (5 vols., 1706-11) (...) which was praised by Voltaire. The book was intended to supplement and continue the history of Josephus, but is marred by the author's inadequate knowledge of Hebrew, which obliged him to rely on Latin translations of Jewish sources and authors. He made use of the works of Buxtorf and Arias Montano and other Christian scholars. (...) his book enjoyed great popularity and was the basis for later, more informed Jewish histories. (...) His books are important as the first comprehensive and truly erudite history of the Jews in the Christian era, filling a gap between early Jewish historical writings and modern Jewish historical research Encyclopaedia Judaica, 4, 309-310 NNBW, 2, 95-98