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 ...

according to the Jewish historian Josephus, writing around a century after Herod’s reign. Two of the amphitheaters were in the area of Jerusalem, and have not been located by archaeologists ...

A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.

Lion Feuchtwanger’s second volume on the Jewish Historian Josephus does not let his colleagues’ standard down. Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him ...

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus writes that Octavian saw Herod’s faithfulness to Mark Antony as a good indicator that he would also be faithful to Rome. In the eyes of his pious ...

Flavius Josephus, who lived until 98 A.D., was a romanized Jewish historian. He wrote books on Jewish history for the Roman people. In his book, Jewish Antiquities, he made references to Jesus.

And where the parokhet was (supposedly) placed and kept according to the first-century Roman-Jewish historian and military leader, Flavius Josephus (born in 37 AD), who is known as Josephus.

The main account of the siege comes from the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who described extended anticipation as the Romans prepared to attack, then a drawn-out resistance before the ...

a term coined by the ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Some historians believe Josephus was referring not to a lighting of lamps but to enlightenment—as in a newly acquired freedom to ...