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 ...

The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE is still one of the most important and contested events in ancient history.

Israeli researchers decipher an ostracon in a grand 1st-century structure in the Jordan Valley that could prove Jewish rebels ...

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 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth floated the possibility of a third Jewish temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, ...

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 ...

Rob Christensen’s new book, “Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century,” comes out March 4. It could be two separate books.

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.

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 ...

The last few weeks have been spent presenting non-biblical sources that speak to one or more of the three minimal bedrock facts concerning what happened to Jesus after His crucifixion.

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 ...