Flavius Josephus (37-100 CE) was a 1st-century Jewish soldier and historian. He was actively involved in the Roman war against the Jews that climaxed in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Sourced And when the book of Daniel was showed to him...
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....
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...
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....
Indonesia's Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced nine people, including seven foreigners, to death for running an ecstasy factory, believed to be one of Asia's largest. Supreme Court spokesman Joko Sarwoko told Kyodo News the court upheld death sentences earlier handed down by...
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...
