One of our most important sources for all the history of this period is the Jewish historian, Josephus. Josephus himself grew up in and around Jerusalem; he claims to have been a part of the Pharisaic ...

Professor Solomon Zeitlin of Dropsie College, Philadelphia, who came to Moscow to study an alleged eighth century manuscript of Josephus’s “Jewish Wars”, said to contain the famous passage on Jesus, ...

"The History of the Jewish People" or The Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work composed by Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian.

Recently we began looking at claims that the Jewish historian Josephus (A.D. 37-c. 100) said that his people believed in reincarnation. This is not true. As we’ve already seen, there were two general ...

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Flavius JosephusThe Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem is a comprehensive account of the Jewish-Roman War and the events leading to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Okay, neither Josephus nor the author of his biography, A Jew Among Romans, was/is a painter, poet, or critic like the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century. So I’ve cheated a little in giving this ...