Robert Garnier’s “Les Juifves” (1583) is generally considered to be the crown jewel of the French Renaissance stage. At the close of his prefatory “Argument” to the play, Garnier obligingly furnishes the historical sources from which he has taken the story of the sufferings of Zedekiah and his family. However, the bibliographic information which the tragedian supplies in his “Argument” contains at least one error with respect to the Bible, and a second error pertaining to Flavius Josephus’s “Jewish Antiquities” is more than likely as well.

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Original publication: Mauro, Damon Di. "Garnier's Historical Sources in Les Juifves." Renaissance and Reformation 29 (2): 2010. 21-31. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v29i2.11411. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.