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Josephus wrote thus concerning this John, that Herod slew him who was a good man, and ex|horted the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righte|ousness towards one another, and piety towards God, and so to come to baptism; for by that means the washing with water would be acceptable to him.
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Asiedu: I suppose I have always been interested in history, but I am not sure that I imagined myself as a “professional historian,” so to speak. My undergraduate degree was in Engineering from Swarthmore College, a school well-known for its liberal arts curriculum. I ended up eventually at the University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies in the ...
Asiedu:I should say at the outset that one should not think about Josephus without thinking of his father when it comes to Paul and the earliest followers of Jesus in Jerusalem. Josephus was a native of Jerusalem, a priest, the son of a priest named Matthias, who, according to Josephus, was one of the leading men of Jerusalem. That makes Josephus’s...
Asiedu: It is a long list including some of the most important figures and events of the day. Josephus makes his readers aware that he knows of them, but he is dutiful in saying next to nothing about them. He must have had his reasons. I mention a few on pp. 124-125. I shall mention here three notable figures, two in Roman Judaea, and one in Rome, ...
Asiedu: One most notable moment little commented upon is Paul’s last visit to Jerusalem (c. 57 CE) and the almost certain likelihood that both Josephus and his father were in Jerusalem at the time when Paul was arrested, as Acts tells the story. What is often not mentioned by New Testament scholars who comment on Romans 15:31, where Paul describes ...
Asiedu: This is not as simple a question as it sounds. And for the record, there is very little about Acts in my book. But since you ask the question, I shall try to answer it. Let us start with the chronology of Acts: it takes us from about 30 CE, where the first chapter begins, to 62 CE, where the last chapter ends, with Paul having finished a tw...
Asiedu: Where exactly was Josephus and where was his father in the years between 57 and 60 CE, during which Paul travelled to Jerusalem, got arrested, and was imprisoned in Caesarea for two years. And why does he not say a word about the Fire of Rome in 64 CE? Subscribe to our free email list.
The extant manuscripts of Josephus' book Antiquities of the Jews, written around AD 93–94, contain two references to Jesus of Nazareth and one reference to John the Baptist. [2] The first and most extensive reference to Jesus in the Antiquities, found in Book 18, states that Jesus was the Messiah and a wise teacher who was crucified by ...
May 3, 2022 · We have evidence from the New Testament that Josephus misrepresents the Pharisees, who, contrary to Josephus, believed in the resurrection of the just and the unjust, as taught in the Hebrew Scripture.
Jul 7, 2004 · a. Josephus, and Matthew and Mark, refer to John as the Baptist. b. Josephus says that John commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, that is, righteousness toward one another and piety toward God. Matthew says that John taught those baptized to bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance.
Nov 4, 2016 · Here’s what you need to know about Josephus and why he matters to the conversation about Jesus of Nazareth. Flavius Josephus was a 1st century Jewish historian (37 – 100 AD). He was a commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee and would later become a Roman citizen.
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Palestine, but also the NT and Josephus: the Jewish groups known as the Pharisees and the Sadducees. One might think that, if indeed these groups are crucial for understanding the NT and Josephus, some sort of scholarly consensus would have emerged concerning their origins, beliefs, and roles in the events of the first century.
