Josephus' Against the Greeks: polemic treatise against the anti-Semitic slander of Apion of Alexandria.
Epaphroditus of Chaeronea
The two volumes of Josephus'…
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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Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.Judas, son of Hezekiah…
Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.Judas the Galilean (6 CE)
Sources: Flavius Josephus,…
Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.King Herod Agrippa (44 CE)
Sources: Flavius Josephus,…
Luke's Seventy-Seven Generations: a Messianic prediction in the Gospel of Luke, based on a parallel in the First Book of Enoch.In the Gospel of Luke 3.23-38, we can read the genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth. Although we may be confident…
Mesopotamia: pseudo-ancient name for the country that is now known as Iraq. In Antiquity, it was not common to regard the five parts of this region as a unity.
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Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.
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Mishnah (Hebrew: מִשְׁנָה, "repetition"): first great collection of rabbinical wisdom.Sepphoris|type:picture]
After the fall of Jerusalem, in 70 CE, Jewish life had no temple and no high priest any more. Judaism had to reinvent itself. The Sadducees vanished, the people who had written the…