Josephus , FLAVIUS, Jewish historian, b. A.D. 37, at Jerusalem; d. about 101. He belonged to a distinguished priestly family, whose paternal ancestors he himself traces back five generations; his ...

The author of The Jewish War—our sole account of the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Romans—has always been one of the Ancient World’s most controversial figures. Born Joseph ben ...

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 ...

Josephus Flavius lived through one of the most tumultuous eras in Jewish history. His life would take him from the command of Jewish forces in Galilee to the inner circles of Roman power, and ...

In December 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted to give the Jewish people a state of their own in the soon-to-be-former British Mandate of Palestine, a symbolic act took place in Italy. The ...

Titus Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100) wrote extensively about the Jews, from the time of Abraham up to day in which he lived. He was a Romano-Jewish historian and scholar. He was and still is well ...

Questions of trust and authority are inherent in the historian’s craft. They have been matters of explicit concern at least since Thucydides raised them near the beginning of his history of the ...

[This article is post #6 of my review of Dr. Richard Bauckham’s book, which is important for Christology, entitled “Son of Man:” Volume 1: Early Jewish Literature (Eerdmans, 2003). This book is the ...

Josephus Flavius both participated in and wrote the history of the Jewish interaction with Rome. According to his autobiography, Joseph ben Mattityahu was born in Jerusalem in 37-38 C.E. into an ...