According to Josephus, he then reaffirmed the rights and freedoms of all the Jews in the Empire.

According to Josephus, these actions led to several failed conspiracies against Caligula.

According to Josephus, Chaerea had political motivations for the assassination.

According to Josephus, power made Caligula incredibly conceited and led him to think he was a god.

According to Josephus, the Essenes had settled " not in one city " but " in large numbers in every town ".

According to Josephus, they had customs and observances such as: collective ownership, electing a leader to attend to the interests of the group, obedience to the orders from their leader.

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).

According to Van Voorst, the statement " those that loved him at the first did not forsake him " has the characteristics of Josephus ' writing and points to the continuation of Christianity.

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

According to Josephus ( Antiquities of the Jews I. 6 ):

According to Josephus, he was trapped in a cave with forty of his companions in July 67.

According to Feldman, Josephus also attaches particular significance to Moses ' possession of the " cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice.

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 Josephus, when Roman troops entered the fortress, they discovered that its 960 inhabitants had set all the buildings but the food storerooms ablaze and committed a mass suicide.

According to 2 Kings and Josephus the people of Israel were removed by the king of the Assyrians ( Sargon II ) to Halah, to Gozan on the Khabur River and to the towns of the Medes.

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

According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist.

According to Josephus, Caligula donned female garb and took part in the mysteries he instituted, and in the Hellenistic age Isis acquired a " new rank as a leading goddess of the Mediterranean world.

According to Herodotus ( 3. 64 ) he died in Ecbatana, i. e. Hamath ; Josephus ( Antiquites xi.

According to Josephus, Titus had ordered that the Temple should not be destroyed, but while the fighting around the gates continued, a soldier hurled a torch inside one of the windows, which quickly set the entire building ablaze.

According to Flavius Josephus, Abilene was a separate Iturean kingdom until 37 AD.

According to Josephus and other extrabiblical sources, he succeeded his father as High Priest.

According to Josephus, he was a milder ruler than his grandfather Herod the Great, and Josephus records him as talking with and then forgiving a law student accused of political rabble rousing, rather than punishing him as his grandfather and some other Herods would have done.

According to Photius, Agrippa died, childless, at the age of seventy, in the third year of the reign of Trajan, that is, 100, but statements of historian Josephus, in addition to the contemporary epigraphy from his kingdom, cast this date into serious doubt.

According to this passage, the execution of John was blamed for a defeat Herod suffered c. 36 CE.

According to tradition, John and the other Apostles remained some 12 years in this first field of labor, until the persecution of Herod Agrippa I led to the scattering of the Apostles through the various provinces of the Roman Empire.

According to the Gospel of Matthew Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.

According to Josephus, Sadducean opposition to Herod led him to treat the Pharisees favorably (" Ant.

According to Josephus, Herod was also of Maccabean descent:

According to Mark 6: 21-29 ( Salome is not mentioned by name in this passage so reference is incomplete ), Salome was the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas.

According to " Letter of Herod To Pilate the Governor ", Herod's daughter was playing in the pool with ice on the surface until it broke under and decapitated her, with Herod's wife holding her daughter's head.

According to Gibbs, Herod and the Magi already expected the child to be born in Bethlehem, just a few miles south of Jerusalem.

* According to the History of Free Masonry, Volume 6, Heredia is a name derived from Herod the Great and his Herodian Kingdom.

* According to researcher Flavius Josephus, heredium was a name given to a costly citadel in memory of Herod's great actions, as Herod " adorned it with the most costly palaces, and erected very strong fortifications " ( The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, page 48 ).

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 scholars within Orthodox Judaism this is considered to have contributed to their downfall, and the eventual downfall of Judea ; internal strife allowing for Roman occupation and the violent installation of Herod the Great as king of the roman province of Palestine and subsequent rededication then destruction of the Second Temple by the Emperor Hadrian.

According to Josephus, regret over this act almost caused Herod to go insane.

According to ten verses of, John was imprisoned for criticizing King Herod Antipas's marriage to Herodias, the former wife of Antipas ' " brother " Herod Philip I. Herod offered his niece a reward of her choice for performing a dance on his birthday.

According to many interpreters the courtiers or soldiers of Herod Antipas (" Milites Herodis ," Jerome ) are intended ; but more probably the Herodians were a public political party, who distinguished themselves from the two great historical parties of post-exilian Judaism ( Pharisees and Sadducees ) by the fact that they were and had been sincerely friendly to Herod the Great, the King of the Jews, and to his dynasty ( cf.

According to the Gospel of Luke, his birth occurred in the town of Bethlehem during the reigns of King Herod the Great of Judaea and the Roman Emperor Augustus, and he was the son of the Virgin Mary, who conceived him by the power of the Holy Spirit.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the ship's log, Selkirk died at 8 p. m. on 13 December 1721 while serving as a lieutenant on board the Royal ship Weymouth.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to Gesta, Unni had died in 936 ( I 64 ).

According to the New Testament Jesus was crucified, died a physical death, was buried within a tomb, and rose from the dead three days later.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to Sunni beliefs, Muhammad gave no specific directions as to the choosing of his successor when he died.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

According to his figures, six times as many people have died from the inflictions of people working for governments than have died in battle.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to the Kojiki, Jimmu died when he was 126 years old.

According to his own account, each day he would walk in front of the hospital in which Giulio died until he was inured to the pain.

According to this account, Emperor Senka died in 539 at the age of 73 ; and succession passed to the third son of Emperor Keitai.

According to traditional sources, Yamato Takeru died in the 43rd year of Emperor Keiko's reign ( 景行天皇43年 ).

According to Nihonshoki, the king of the Korean Silla Kingdom grieved very much when Ingyō died.

According to the Kojiki ( 712 ) and Nihon Shoki ( 720 ), Buretsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of Emperor Ōjin, Keitai, came and ascended the throne.

According to archival records, at least 16, 594 people died under the guillotine or otherwise after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities.

According to Dio Cassius 72. 14. 3 – 4, in about 189 AD, under Commodus ’ reign, a pestilence occurred, the largest of which he had knowledge, in which 2, 000 people died in Rome each day.

According to a 1993 study of archival Soviet data, a total of 1, 053, 829 people died in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953.

According to UN estimates, between 500, 000 and 1. 2 million children died during the years of the sanctions.

According to the Harvard University Library, " By the late 19th century, 70 to 90 % of the urban populations of Europe and North America were infected with the TB bacillus, and about 80 % of those individuals who developed active tuberculosis died of it.

According to a version of these interpretations, Isaac died in the sacrifice and was revived.

According to German government estimates, " 65, 000 people died in those Soviet-run camps or in transportation to them.