The Hebrew Bible of Josephus

In his major work, the Jewish Antiquities, Josephus gives a history
of his people in Greek. He begins with the Bible, and after it he collects
other source till his own time. The work was published in 93, under
emperor Domitian, but unfortunately the Biblical part is a paraphrase, not
an accurate translation, and it has often been thought that it was merely
a loose adaptation of a previous Greek translation. However, this study
offers a minute comparison with other ancient Biblical texts known to us
in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek. The general conclusion is that he used only a
Hebrew source, which has some af-finities with several Qumran fragments.
Beyond many little details, one can see that for some books, especially
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, the copies he used
were quite differ-ent from the canonical forms.