The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37-c.100) describes in his Jewish Antiquities a terrible war between king Herod, who had only recently been appointed by the Roman leaders Mark Antony and Octavian, and his future subjects, who refused to acknowledge their…
Josephus' Against the Greeks: polemic treatise against the anti-Semitic slander of Apion of Alexandria.
Epaphroditus of Chaeronea
The two volumes of Josephus'…
Josephus' Autobiography: apologetic treatise about his behavior during the Jewish War (66-70).
Flavius Josephus?
Josephus' Autobiography appeared as an appendix to a…
Josephus' Jewish War: main source about the Jewish revolt against the Romans (66-70), the destruction of Jerusalem (70), and the siege of Masada (74).
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Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Menander of Ephesus: Greek author of a history of Phoenicia.When he was writing the first books of his Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, the Greek-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus essentially retold the story of the Bible. He believed that the Jewish sacred literature…