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	FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS - LoveToKnow Article on FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In company with two other priests, Josephus was sent to Galilee under orders (he says) to persuade the illaffected to lay down their arms and return to the Roman allegiance, which the Jewish aristocracy had not yet renounced.
		Josephus wrote a narrative of his own Life in order to defend himself against the accusation brought by his enemy Justus of Tiberias to the effect that he had really been the cause of the Jewish rebellion.
		In his defence Josephus departs from the facts as narrated in the Jewish War and represents himself as a partisan of Rome and, therefore, as a traitor to his own people from the beginning.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOSEPHUS_FLAVIUS.htm (1295 words)

	Flavius Josephus - Wikipedia
		Flavius Josephus, meist nur Josephus genannt (* 37/38 in Jerusalem, † ca.
		Chr., und Josephus geht mit Titus, dem Sohn Vespasians, der in der Zwischenzeit das Oberkommando übernommen hatte, nach Rom.
		Josephus ist für Eusebius sozusagen der Kronzeuge für die Ereignisse zu Lebzeiten Jesu und für die Zeit des Urchristentums.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flavius_Josephus (701 words)

	Flavius Josephus
		Flavius Josephus was born of an aristocratic priestly family in Jerusalem.
		Josephus, arguing the immorality of suicide, proposed that each man, in turn, should dispatch his neighbor, the order to be determined by casting lots.
		Josephus contrived to draw the last lot, and, as one of the two surviving men in the cave, he prevailed upon his intended victim to surrender to the Romans.
	www.crystalinks.com /josephius.html (1537 words)

	Flavius Josephus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Josephus Desktop Site devoted to the life and writings of Flavius Josephus; includes biographies, University of Southampton courses and resources, and web directory of related sites.
		Josephus the Eyewitness Christian site identifying Flavius Josephus as an eyewitness to early Christianity.
		Josephus, Flavius Jewish historian, born A.D. 37, at Jerusalem; died about 101.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Flavius_Josephus.html (218 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.02.23
		Wiseman argues convincingly that Josephus' version of the assassination was based on the accounts of two Roman authors whose works have not survived -- probably Cluvius Rufus, a senator of consular rank and an eye-witness to the murder, and Fabius Rusticus, Seneca's equestrian friend from Spain.
		Inexplicably, the translator's commentary on Josephus' opening statement that Caligula "filled Rome's dominions with more evil than history had ever known," was simply to quote Balsdon to the effect that "The administration of Gaius...
		Josephus wrote that Caligula died after reigning for "four years less four months (AJ 19.201)," and Wiseman observes that "the true figure is four years less 53 days." But Wiseman dates from the day of Tiberius' death, and the dies imperii of Caligula may have been later.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1992/03.02.23.html (726 words)

	Flavius Josephus
		Josephus, like every aristocrat, had no real sense of identification with the dispossessed and oppressed peasantry; ultimately, he did not understand the true cause of the war he described.
		To Josephus, this was a dangerous publication, because people were reminded of the fact that he had once led an army against Rome and was responsible for the death of many Roman soldiers.
		Josephus had always been protected by the emperors of the house of Vespasian, but the behavior of the emperor Domitian was erratic, and Josephus was well advised to defend himself.
	www.livius.org /jo-jz/josephus/josephus.htm (3155 words)

	The Life of Flavius Josephus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Josephus was a priest, a soldier, and a scholar.
		Josephus subsequently improved his language skills and undertook a massive work in Greek explaining the history of the Jews to the general non-Jewish audience.
		Josephus wrote at least two smaller books, including his autobiography, in which he recounts his life from birth until the writing of the Antiquities.
	members.aol.com /FLJOSEPHUS/life.htm (493 words)

	Flavius Josephus and the Pharisees by Steve Mason
		Josephus claims that he determined to gain expertise in each of the three “philosophical schools” that existed among the Judeans (not, contra Thackeray in the Loeb, “into which our nation is divided”).
		Josephus wrote the War, he says, to combat chauvinistic pro-Roman and anti-Jewish accounts of the conflict (War 1.1-3, 6-9), which had portrayed the Judeans as both a weak nation, deserted by their protective Deity at the time of need, and congenitally rebellious.
		Josephus wishes that the aristocrats were always successful in managing their populace, but he willingly concedes that both in the context of war and otherwise, this has not always been the case.
	www.bibleinterp.com /articles/Flavius_Josephus.htm (4600 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Flavius Josephus
		In the beginning the Jews were successful, but later when the Roman General Vespasian advanced with the main army from Antioch to Galilee, burning and murdering, the insurgents either fled or sought shelter in their fortresses.
		In the summer of 67, the garrison being now exhausted from lack of water and other necessaries, the Romans stormed the citadel; most of the patriots were put to the sword, but Josephus escaped the massacre by hiding in an inaccessible cistern, and emerged only after receiving an assurance that his life would be spared.
		He accompanied the emperor as far as Egypt, when the latter had handled over to his son the prosecution of the Jewish War, but then joined the retinue of Titus, and was an eyewitness of the destruction of the Holy City and her Temple.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08522a.htm (1532 words)

	Flavius Josephus.
		Josephus does not follow a strict chronology, and sees John only as a preacher of righteousness; so is quite content to mention Jesus' death while discussing Pilate and John's death in a later discussion on Herod.
		Josephus' reference in the passage on James, to 'Jesus, who was called Christ,' itself implies that he has previously mentioned this particular Jesus.
		Josephus may have said a little more about Jesus, as is implied by the "Kitab al-'Unwan" document: on the other hand, he may have been less complimentary.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /kking/extern3.html (1989 words)

	JOSEPHUS; FLAVIUS in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		Josephus escaped to a cave where, with his usual adroitness, he saved himself from death at the hands of his companions.
		Josephus worked upon the superstitions of the general, and so ingratiated himself that Vespasian took him to Alexandria in his train.
		The vituperation with which Josephus visits Apion is unimportant in comparison with the defense of Mosaic religion and the criticism of paganism.
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/J/JOSEPHUS;+FLAVIUS (1025 words)

	The Works of Flavius Josephus
		Josephus was born Joseph ben Mattathias in 37 C.E. in Jerusalem of a priestly and royal family.
		Although Josephus had deep misgivings about the revolt, it became inevitable, due to reasons he discusses in his history, primarily the abuses of the Romans; this spurred the growth of fanatical Messianic Jewish movements which believed that the world was coming to an end shortly.
		In 66 C.E. the Masada was seized by the Zealots and the Romans were on the march; Josephus was appointed the commander of Galilee.
	www.sacred-texts.com /jud/josephus (783 words)

	Josephus Flavius game
		Josephus Flavius was a famous Jewish historian of the first century at the time of the Second Temple destruction.
		The legend has it that preferring suicide to capture, the Jews decided to form a circle and, proceeding around it, to kill every third remaining person until no one was left.
		Josephus, not keen to die, quickly found the safe spot in the circle and thus stayed alive.
	www.cut-the-knot.org /recurrence/flavius.shtml (169 words)

	Tomb of Jesus (Flavius Josephus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Life of Flavius Josephus is in an autobiography that originally appeared as an appendix to his famous work, The Antiquities.
		Some argued that we had to admit that Flavius Josephus had become a Christian; others maintained that it was made up by some Byzantine monk who copied the Jewish Antiquities.
		Not only is Flavius Josephus the only first century non-Christian writer who makes reference to Jesus' life, teachings and death and is his statement independent of the gospels, but he also suggests that Jesus was innocent.
	www.tombofjesus.com /Josephus.htm (590 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Jewish War : Revised Edition (The Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Josephus was born in 37 AD, seven years after the crucifixion of Christ, and he was educated as a scholar and priest.
		Josephus was born around 37AD and was a commander in the Jewish army (if really that structured)at the early stages of the Jewish revolt that began in 66AD and lasted some 7 years.
		Josephus describes the different factions that caused the revolt and how they were "ungodly." These "terrorists" were gung-ho for a revolt against the Romans while the average citizen was terrified.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140444203?v=glance (3741 words)

	Josephus Unbound
		Josephus, in Jewish War 3.5.8, declares that one of his purposes in writing is “to deter others who may be tempted to revolt.” This would hardly be accomplished by saying that Jerusalem fell because of the manipulative actions of the Jewish God.
		While Josephus is concerned with justifying Roman actions and providing a lesson to the world at large—a lesson of paramount importance to his Flavian patrons—that rebellion against Rome is futile, he also, especially in the earlier work, kept his eye on his own countrymen and their interests.
		And if Josephus felt impelled to include for his readers any report about a messianic pretender who had given rise to a “tribe” that persisted “to this day,” he would surely have wanted to inform them of this tribe’s outlandish belief that their founder had walked out of his tomb.
	pages.ca.inter.net /~oblio/supp10.htm (15686 words)

	Josephus Gives His Testimony On Jesus
		Flavius Josephus (circa 37-100 AD) was a Jewish historian whose writings include "Jewish Antiquities", which appeared around 93 AD.
		The very fact that Josephus was Jewish seemed to enhance the value of the testimony.
		It was said that Josephus was constrained by God to speak the truth in spite of himself.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/apr/article242.html (862 words)

	Flavius Josephus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Shaye Cohen, Josephus in Galilee and Rome (Lieden: Brill 2002).
		Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First-Century Conquest of Judea (1993).
		Josephus is an invaluable source for the history of Judaism in the Second Temple period.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /josephus.html (1016 words)

	Josephus in the Ante-Nicene Fathers: all the citations
		Josephus says, that when Moses had been brought up in the royal palaces, he was chosen as general against the Ethiopians; and having proved victorious, obtained in marriage the daughter of that king, since indeed, out of her affection for him, she delivered the city up to him.
		Flavius Josephus the Jew, who composed the history of the Jews, computing the periods, says that from Moses to David were five hundred and eighty-five years; from David to the second year of Vespasian, a thousand one hundred and seventy-nine; then from that to the tenth year of Antoninus, seventy-seven.
		And Josephus says that the temple had two storeys, and that the whole height was one hundred and twenty cubits.
	www.tertullian.org /rpearse/josephus/josephus.htm (3224 words)

	The Credibility of Josephus - Magen Broshi @ CenturyOne Bookstore
		He was of the opinion that Josephus made use of a Flavian composition - a composition not written by the emperor (Vespasian or Titus) but an official record based on crude field reports.
		It should be noted also that it is in his later writings that Josephus mentions the assistance he received in composing his Greek text, although it would surely have been in his first book that he would have most needed such help.
		It has not been our intention here to prove that he is always exact of correct in every statement, but to show that his data are in many instances accurate, and that they stem from reliable sources to which he had access from the very beginning of his literary career.
	www.centuryone.com /josephus.html (2207 words)

	Josephus Flavius
		Josephus Flavius was a Jew who grew up in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Common Era.
		Following the end of the war, Josephus was taken to Rome, where he wrote The Jewish War.
		Because of the paucity of other sources, Josephus' works are the most thorough histories of the period that we have.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Josephus.html (351 words)

	Historicity Of Jesus FAQ
		The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, writing during the second half of the first century CE, produced two major works: History of the Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews.
		The early Christian writer Origen claims that Josephus did NOT recognize Jesus as the Messiah, in direct contradiction to the above passage, where Josephus says, "He was the Messiah." Thus, we may conclude that this particular phrase at least was a later insertion.
		In particular, Josephus probably did not claim that Jesus was the Messiah, or that he rose from the dead.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/scott_oser/hojfaq.html (2757 words)

	Flavius Josephus - josephus.yorku.org - Related Projects
		Josephus und Vespasian: Untersuchungen zu dem Jüdischen Krieg des Flavius Josephus.
		Der jüdische Historiker Flavius Josephus: ein biographischer Versuch auf neuer quellenkritischer Grundlage.
		Josephus' Contra Apionem: studies in its character and context with a Latin concordance to the portion missing in Greek.
	josephus.yorku.ca /york2001-5.htm (969 words)

	Flavius Josephus Home Page
		Josephus' relation to the modern world is addressed in a new category.
		When the Romans laid seige to Jerusalem, Josephus attempted to persuade his countrymen to give up the city peacefully, and one of the omens he used to justify his position involved the Pool of Siloam.
		This explanation can be taken even further, as Josephus tells us that the valley running through central Jerusalem was called the Tyropoion Valley, which means "Valley of the Cheesemakers" (War 5.4.1 140) (the Greek Tyropoion is the genitive plural of tyropoios, from tyros, "cheese", and poieo, "make").
	members.aol.com /FLJOSEPHUS/home.htm (909 words)

	The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus
		The "Antiquities of the Jews" ("Jewish Archeology") is a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from the beginnings of Biblical history to the outbreak of the war in 66 A.D., in twenty books, after the model of the Romaike archaiologia of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
		It was completed in the thirteenth year of Domitian, 93-94 A.D. For the Biblical period (books 1 and 11) Josephus draws almost exclusively from the Bible in the Septuagint version, but he modifies the Biblical story and supplements it by legends, following current traditions.
		Since all of Josephus' writings were in Greek, except for the original draft of "Jewish War", it was appropriate for him to write a discourse on Hades for his Greek readers.
	studylight.org /his/bc/wfj (305 words)

	AllRefer.com - Flavius Josephus (Historians, Ancient, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Josephus' historical works are among the most valuable sources for the study of early Judaism and early Christianity.
		He won the favor of the Roman general Vespasian (Titus Flavius Vespasianus) and took his name, Flavius.
		He lived in Rome under imperial patronage, where he wrote the Greek-language historical works for which he is renowned.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Josephus.html (312 words)

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