Josephus Flavius (ca. 37-100) was a Jewish historian, diplomat, and military leader, and the sole source of information concerning numerous events in the final centuries of the Jewish state. According to his own account, Josephus was born to an...

Josephus is by far the most important source for the history of the Jews from the close of the biblical period in the fifth century B.C. to his own day. He is indispensable to an understanding of the political, social, economic, and religious...

JOSEPHUS FLAVIUS (37/8–c. 100 CE), born Yosef ben Mattityahu, was a Jewish general, historian, and apologist. Josephus was perhaps the most prolific, significant, and controversial of Jewish writers in Judaea during the Hellenistic-Roman era....

A first-century C.E. general and historian of the Jews. His great works were The Jewish War, which he wrote shortly after the defeat of the Jews by the Romans and the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., and The History of the...

37?-100? Jewish historian who wrote extensively on the Roman occupation of Israel and the Middle East. Originally named Joseph ben Matthias, Josephus was a member of the Pharisees, a Jewish sect that practiced strict observance of the law, and later...

(1st Century CE) Historian. Although initially Josephus fought for the rebels in the *Jewish War, he surrendered to the Romans in 67CE and accompanied them to the siege of *Jerusalem. His two major works, The Antiquities and the Jewish War are our...

Josephus (37 – sometime after 100 AD),[1] who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus,[2] was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the Destruction of...

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, Life of Josephus (trans. and ed. Steve Mason; Flavius Josephus 9; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 2001). Pp. liv + 288. NLG 295.30, $134. The volume constitutes the first installment of a massive endeavor to provide a new translation and commentary on the...

STEVE MASON (ed.), Understanding Josephus: Seven Perspectives (JSPSup 32; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998). Pp. 260. 43.25, $70. The authors of these essays explore the somewhat underexplored subject of Josephus as an author and thinker. After an introductory essay by Steve Mason (pp....

Funeral services were held Saturday for a pregnant woman whose body was found in a park more than a week after she went missing.Family members sobbed quietly as they approached the casket for 26-year-old Jessie Davis in front of about 750 mourners at the House...

Under a baking sun, pieces of limestone carved with borders of rosettes and geometrical designs lay in three excavated pits Tuesday _ a desert site Israeli archaeologists say is the tomb of King Herod, who ruled the Holy Land when Christ was born.The find, which...