Josephus Flavius
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 controver...
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Flavius Josephus
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Israeli scientists have discovered the tomb of
Herod the Great, the first century BC Roman-installed ruler of
Biblical Judaea best known for his cruelty as...
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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 spokesm...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - The foundation that runs the tiny historical
Dutch village of Bourtange announced it received an extraordinary
17th-century Dutch translation of Antiquitie...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - It took 35 years, but on Tuesday Professor Ehud
Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem could finally announce
that he had solved a "great mystery" an...
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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-ye...
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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 He...
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The last known surviving American female World War I veteran, a refined Civil War buff who met face-to-face with the Secretary of the Navy to fight for women in the military, has died. She was 109....
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Jerusalem (dpa) - Herod the Great, whose tomb archaeologists said
Tuesday that have discovered at a location 15 kilometres south of
Jerusalem, was the biblical king who acco...
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Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old mansion believed to have been home to Queen Helene of Adiabene, whose clan ruled a region now in Iraq.The remains of the building were unearthed ju...
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Israeli archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old mansion believed to have been home to Queen Helene of Adiabene, whose clan ruled a region now in Iraq.The remains of the building were unearthed ju...
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Josephus Flavius
Flavius Josephus
Josephus Flavius
Flavius Josephus
Israeli scientists discover tomb of Herod the Great
