Complex sentence: From Joshua to the Mishnah "p.250 Josephus" paternal grandparents were Josephus and his wife-an unnamed Jewish noblewoman, both distant relatives of each other and direct descendants of Simon Psellus.
Split into simpler sentences: From Joshua to the Mishnah "p.250 Josephus" paternal grandparents were Josephus and his wife, an unnamed Jewish noblewoman. His paternal grandparents were distant relatives of each other, as they were both direct descendants of Simon Psellus.