The 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian Josephus mentioned a book circulating under the name of Solomon, which contained incantations for summoning demons and described how a Jew called Eleazar used it to cure cases of possession.

The extant manuscripts of the writings of the 1st century Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus include references to Jesus and the origins of Christianity.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

The writings of the 1st century Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus include references to Jesus and the origins of Christianity.

Louis Feldman argues that the writings of the 1st century Romano-Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 ) contain two references to Jesus.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Some feel that the text of Acts shows evidence of having used the Jewish historian Josephus as a source ( in which case it would have to have been written sometime after 94 AD ).

He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah ( a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the " great sages " of Israel ) and 4 Maccabees ( 1st century CE ), and by the 1st century CE historian Josephus, says that the prophet wrote two books.

The Jewish historian Josephus speaks of there being 22 books in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish tradition reported also by the Christian bishop Athanasius.

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus described Jericho as " the most fertile spot in Judea ".

The first century Jewish historian, Josephus, deals with Ezra in his Antiquities of the Jews.

The events were described by the Jewish leader / historian Josephus, including the desperate defence of Jotapata, the siege of Jerusalem ( 69 – 70 CE ) and heroic last stand at Masada under Eleazar ben Yair ( 72 – 73 CE ).

Along these lines, the ancient historian Josephus emphasized practices and observances rather than religious beliefs, associating apostasy with a failure to observe Jewish law and maintaining that the requirements for conversion to Judaism included circumcision and adherence to traditional customs.

The historian Josephus claims that the conspirators wished to restore the Republic while the historian Suetonius claims their motivations were mostly personal.

The earliest secure reference to this passage is found in the writings of the fourth-century Christian apologist and historian Eusebius, who used Josephus ' works extensively as a source for his own Historia Ecclesiastica.

Setzer states that the passage indicates that Josephus, a Jewish historian writing towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman protection.

The dramatic murder of Aristobulus III in a swimming pool in Jericho, as told by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, took place during a banquet organized by Herod's Hasmonean mother-in-law.

John the Baptist is also mentioned by Jewish historian Josephus, in Aramaic Matthew, in the Pseudo-Clementine literature, and in the Qur ' an.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus gives a slightly different account in his Antiquities of the Jews.

Josephus in Galilee and Rome: his vita and development as a historian.

However, the tradition is comparatively late ( it dates from Josephus, a 1st century AD historian ), and scholars are practically unanimous that the book had a long period of growth, that it includes some material of considerable antiquity, and that it reached its present form in the Persian period ( 538 – 332 BC ).

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also ; however, according to the Talmud ( Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b ), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others.

According to Josephus, a 1st-century Jewish Roman historian, Herod the Great fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BC as a refuge for himself in the event of a revolt.

According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Samuel was about 12 years old.

The 1st century historian Flavius Josephus, among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, and Syria, respectively.

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.

* Josephus, Jewish historian ( b. 37 )

This inscription is supplemented by the contemporary Jewish historian, Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), who reports in the Jewish Wars ( book 7, ch.

As noted by the historian Richard Whiting, spending on social services under Wilson rose faster than the growth in GNP, by 65 % ( excluding housing ) as against 37 % for GNP, " a substantially better record than that achieved by the preceding Conservative governments .”

The first surviving historical mention of the Pharisees is from the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus ( 37 – 100 CE ), in a description of the " four schools of thought ," or " four sects ," into which the Jews were divided in the 1st century CE ; the other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical and who may have emerged as a sect of dissident priests who rejected either the Seleucid-appointed or the Hasmonean high priests as illegitimate ; the Sadducees, who were the main antagonists of the Pharisees ; and the " fourth philosophy " possibly associated with the anti-Roman revolutionary groups such as the Sicarii and the Zealots.

The 10th century historian Agapius of Hierapolis, in his Universal History, says that Pilate committed suicide during the first year of Caligula's reign, in AD 37 / 38.

According to historical sources, including 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c.

The other primary source for the Hasmonean dynasty is the first book of The Wars of the Jews by the Jewish historian Josephus, ( 37 – shortly after 100 CE ).

According to Josephus, a 1st-century AD Jewish Roman historian, Herod the Great fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BC as a refuge for himself in the event of a revolt.

According to the Arabic historian al-Turtūshī, Ramiro ( misidentified as " Ibn Rudmīr ", the son of Ramiro ) was assassinated by a Muslim soldier who spoke the Christians ' language and infiltrated the Aragonese camp .< ref > Brian A. Catlos ( 2004 ), The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050 – 1300 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ), 37 .</ ref >

The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 AD ) mentions that:

Richard Woodman ( born 1944 ) is an English novelist and naval historian who retired in 1997 from a 37 year nautical career, mainly working for Trinity House, to write full time.

Jewish historian Flavius Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 AD ), Roman Catholic priest Jerome ( c. 347 – 420 AD ) and Isidore of Seville ( c. 560 – 636 AD ) regarded Togarmah as the father of the Phrygians.

Chang and Halliday's figure is 37. 67 million, which historian Stuart Schram indicated that he believes " may well be the most accurate.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1957 – Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1823 – Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist ( d. 1910 )

* 1891 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist ( d. 1971 )

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian ( d. 1851 )

* 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian ( d. 2007 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

* Johannes Aventinus ( 1477 – 1534 ): Bavarian historian

* 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian