Biblical Hebrew Forum

[MarianneLuban AT aol.com]

I hope some people here are more knowledgeable in Greek than I am because I 
want to make certain of some passages from the Greek text of Josephus.  It 
has 
to do with his reference to a certain "Amenophis", a wiseman, universally 
accepted to be a well-documented actual person from AE, Amenhotep son of 
Hapu.  
When Josephus first mentions the wiseman he writes, "Amenophis patros de 
Paapios" and then later 
"Amenophis ton Paapios", both translated as "Amenophis son of Paapis.  I know 
that
"patros" means "father", but I can't understand the presence of "de" in the 
phrase.  Also, I think "ton" can mean "the son of" but also just plain "of".  
Anybody?

Marianne Luban