Ben-Ari, Nitsa (2003): «The double conversion of Ben-Hur: a case of manipulative translation» (PDF), Target. 14 (2), s. 263–301. Sitat: «The converts themselves were banned from society as outcasts and so was their historiographic work or, in the more popular historical novels, their literary counterparts. Josephus Flavius, formerly Yosef Ben Matityahu (34-95), had been shunned, then banned as a traitor.»