(John),** a very learned and ingenious English clergyman, was born in Huntingdonshire, about the year 1701. Having some private fortune of his own, and being of a peculiar disposition that could not solicit promotion, he remained long without preferment. In 1738, lord Winchester gave him the living of Eastwell in Kent; but the place not agreeing with his health, he soon resigned it. Archbishop Herring, who had a great value for him, about the year 1751 presented him to the living of St Dunstan's in the East; and bishop Osbaldeston in 1762 gave him that of Kensington, with a prebend in St Paul's cathedral, and made him archdeacon of London. His temper, as well as his aspect, was rather morose and saturnine; but in company that he liked, he was at all times facetious, yet still with a mixture of sal censure superlum. His sermons were sensible and argumentative; and would have made more impression on his hearers, had he been more attentive to the advantages flowing from a good delivery: but he appeared to greater advantage as a writer. His remarks on ecclesiastical history, his six dissertations, his life of Erasmus, and his sermons, were extremely well received by the public, and have undergone several editions. He died in the year 1770.

**JOSEPH,** the son of Jacob; memorable for his chastity, and the honours conferred on him at the court of Egypt, &c. He died in 1635 B.C. aged 110.

**JOSEPHUS,** the celebrated historian of the Jews, was of noble birth, by his father Mattathias descended from the high-priests, and by his mother of the blood-royal of the Maccabees; he was born A.D. 37, under Caligula, and lived under Domitian. At 16 years of age he betook himself to the sect of the Essenes, and then to the Pharisees; and having been successful in a journey journey to Rome, upon his return to Judaea he was made captain-general of the Galileans. Being taken prisoner by Vespasian, he foretold his coming to the empire, and his own deliverance by his means. He accompanied Titus at the siege of Jerusalem, and wrote his "Wars of the Jews," which Titus ordered to be put in the public library. He afterwards lived at Rome, where he enjoyed the privileges of a Roman citizen, and where the emperors loaded him with favours, and granted him large pensions. Besides the above work, he wrote, 1. Twenty books of Jewish antiquities, which he finished under Domitian. 2. Two books against Appian. 3. An elegant discourse on the martyrdom of the Maccabees. 4. His own life. These works are excellently written in Greek.