To the Editor:
By an unforgivable blunder I have done an injury to a scholar whose work I hold in the highest regard. In the process of transferring the introductory note to the selection from the Testament of Joseph in the November “Cedars of Lebanon” from a draft of a chapter on Greek Romances in a book I am writing, I omitted reference to the documentation. The note in my book reads: “These relationships were recognized and worked out in detail by Martin Braun in his History and Romance in Graeco-Oriental Literature (Oxford, Blackwell, 1938), 44-93. Previously Braun had demonstrated the affinities of the Joseph story in Josephus (Antiquities 2:39-59) with the practices of Hellenistic historiography; see his Griechischer Roman und hellenistische Geschichtsschreibung (Frankfurter Studien zur Religion und Kultur der Antike, 6: Frankfurt am Main, 1934), 23-117.” I offer my heartfelt apologies to Dr. Braun, to COMMENTARY, and to its readers.
Moses Hadas
New York City
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