Josephus
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Flavius Josephus was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly desc
Engraving by John Sartain, 1880
Galilee, site of Josephus's governorship, before the First Jewish–Roman War
The works of Josephus translated by Thomas Lodge (1602)
1581 German translation of Josephus's The Jewish War in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Antiquities of the Jews
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Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE. It
11th-century illuminated manuscript
A leaf from the 1466 manuscript of the Antiquitates Iudaice, National Library of Poland