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- At age 16 he began his study of the three main Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. For three years, he was a disciple of the hermit Bannus, a member of one of the ascetic Jewish sects that flourished in Judea during the first century A.D.
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Josephus elaborated upon various Greek mythological and philosophical com-parisons he found in the source, both here in the Jewish War when writing about the sects, and throughout his corpus. In fact Elledge identifies four in-fluences on what Josephus has written about the immortality of the soul: the
Whether maligned as a traitor to the Jews, celebrated as their shrewd defender, and/or even presented as a proto-Christian, Josephus—our most important source for the Jewish history of the first century C.E.—is simply indispensable.
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According to his autobiography, Joseph ben Mattityahu was born in Jerusalem in 37-38 C.E. into an aristocratic, priestly family; his great-grandfather on his mother’s side was the Hasmonean high priest Jonathan. He describes himself as a child prodigy, capable, at age 14, of clarifying details of the law to the leading priests of the city. Josephus...
In JW, Josephus describes a period of irresponsible revolution, which brought the entire nation unwillingly into war against the Romans. These initial conflicts culminated in the defeat of the Roman legate of Syria, Cestius Gallus. He then describes how the moderate Jerusalem leadership took control of the revolt and appointed generals with similar...
When the Romans captured Jotapata in July of 67, Josephus “helped by divine providence,” escaped to a cave with 40 others. JWdescribes the exact fulfillment of his prediction that Jotapata would fall on the 47th day of the siege and his dreams of the coming calamities facing the Jews and the fortune of the Romans. The other occupants of the cave co...
Titus brought Josephus to Rome, where he lived the remainder of his life. Vespasian granted Josephus Roman citizenship and provided him with a pension and a large estate in Judea. During the reign of Titus, Josephus composed the JW,which begins with the war against Antiochus Epiphanes and concludes with the fall of Jerusalem (book 6) and its afterm...
A history in which one of the main historical characters is actually the author is rather strange, and raises the question of whether the historian is overemphasizing or distorting his own role. From a literary perspective, beginning JWwell before his own arrival on the scene allows Josephus an opportunity to establish his reliability as an histori...
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Oct 19, 2024 · Flavius Josephus (born ad 37/38, Jerusalem—died ad 100, Rome) was a Jewish priest, scholar, and historian who wrote valuable works on the Jewish revolt of 66–70 and on earlier Jewish history. His major books are History of the Jewish War (75–79), The Antiquities of the Jews (93), and Against Apion.
- Flavius Josephus was born of an aristocratic priestly Jewish family in Jerusalem. According to his own account, he was a precocious youth who by th...
- Flavius Josephus’s greatest work, The Antiquities of the Jews, completed in 93 CE, traced the history of the Jews from creation to just before the...
- Flavius Josephus was appointed military commander of Galilee by Judaeans revolting against Rome. He fortified the towns of the north but eventually...
- Flavius Josephus’s works contain faulty chronology and exaggerated facts. Yet he united the traditions of Judaism and Hellenism, provided a link be...
Josephus recorded the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66–70), including the siege of Masada. His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94). [11] The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation.
Oct 12, 2012 · The book argues that Josephus provides a relatively accurate picture of Jewish theological diversity in his day. This book also examines Josephus’s own theologizing. It argues that Josephus articulated a largely Pharisaic theology, in line with his claim to have adopted this group’s ways.
Oct 8, 2021 · Titus Flavius Josephus (36-100 CE), the Jewish historian, is the main source for understanding Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE. In the last decades of the 1st century CE, he wrote The Jewish War, the Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion, and The Life of Flavius Josephus.
