*( date unknown ) Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades ( spurious ; adaptation of " Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe " by Hippolytus of Rome )

Josephus's Against Apion gives two long quotations from Manetho's Aigyptiaca.

Josephus's Contra Apion is a wide-ranging defense of Judaism against many charges laid against Judaism at that time, as too are some of the works of Philo of Alexandria.

As with other passages in Josephus relating to Christian themes, concern remains over whether the passage was part of Josephus's original text or instead a later addition-it can be dated back no further than the early 3rd century when it is quoted by Origen in Contra Celsum.

He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years — a figure that conforms with Flavius Josephus's version of Manetho's Epitome.

The identification is based in part on the description of his death, which is very similar to Agrippa's death in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews 19. 8. 2, although Josephus does not include the claim that " an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms ".

It is much more likely that Saul had no official high priest after this incident until the end of his reign ( see Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, Book VI, Chapter XII, Paragraph 7.

The name " Salome " is given to the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas ( unnamed in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark ) in Josephus's Jewish Antiquities ( Book XVIII, Chapter 5, 4 ): Herodias, [...], was married to Herod, the son of Herod the Great, who was born of Mariamne, the daughter of Simon the high priest, who had a daughter, Salome ; after whose birth Herodias took upon her to

The letter is often mentioned and quoted in other texts, most noteably Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 93 AD ), Aristobolus writing in a passage preserved by Eusebius, and by Philo of Alexandria.

The architectural historian Mark Girouard has suggested that the design is in fact derived from Nikolaus de Lyra's reconstruction, and Josephus's description, of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem ,, with a more direct inspiration being the mid-sixteenth century Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, which Smythson knew.

This contains more details about Josiah's movements on the battlefield which have been suggested come from documents now lost, but Cline suggests it is based on the biblical accounts and perhaps Josephus's own views.

The Jewish War (, Ioudaikou polemos ), also Judean War in full Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans (, Phlabiou Iōsēpou historia Ioudaikou polemou pros Rōmaious biblia ), also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews and The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, is a book written by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus.

In Josephus's history, it is claimed that, after the first Ptolemy took Judea, he led some 120, 000 Jewish captives to Egypt from the areas of Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and Mount Gerizim.

The intended ethnic identity of these ' descendants of Japheth ' is not certain ; however, over history, they have been identified by Biblical scholars with various historical nations who were deemed to be descendants of Japheth and his sons — a practice dating back at least to the classical encounters of Jew with Hellene, for example in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, I. VI. 122 ( Whiston ).

But since the main body of this manuscript is Jacob van Maerlant's translation / adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, traditionally known as Rijmbijbel ( rhymed Bible ) and Jacob's adaptation / translation of Flavius Josephus's De bello judaeico.

* Mark Andrew Brighton, The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations ( Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, 2009 ) ( Early Judaism and Its Literature, 27 ).

This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish Wars ( Bellum Judaicum ), provides valuable background material to historians wishing to understand 1st-century AD Judaism and the early Christian period.

He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery.

It was above aqueducts and pools, at a flattened, desert site, halfway up the hill to the Herodium, 12 kilometers south of Jerusalem — as described in Josephus's writings.

However, the earliest Christian traditions place this event at the nearby Mount Serbal, at the foot of which a monastery was founded in the 4th century ; it was only in the 6th century that the monastery moved to the foot of Mount Catherine, following the guidance of Josephus's earlier claim that Sinai was the highest mountain in the area.

Muir's father read Josephus's War of the Jews to understand the culture of first-century Palestine, as it was written by an eyewitness, and illuminated the culture during the period of the New Testament.

Poe was inspired at least in part by Flavius Josephus's History of the Jewish Wars, a first century account of the Biblical city of Gomorrah.

He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery.

Theophilus was the High Priest in the Second Temple in Jerusalem from AD 37 to 41 according to Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews.

The book was written about 75, originally in Josephus's " paternal tongue ", probably Aramaic, though this version has not survived.

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.

Josephus's life story remains ambiguous.

Other notable previous recordings of it include Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, the Pantschantantra, and One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

Another source from Antiquity, Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, gives her name and some detail about her family relations.

Soane also acquired several illuminated manuscripts: a 13th century English Vulgate Bible ; a 15th century Flemish copy of Josephus's works ; four book of hours, two Flemish of the 15th century and early 16th century, Dutch of the late 15th century and French 15th century ; a French missal dated 1482 ; Le Livre des Cordonniers de Caen, French 15th century ; Marino Grimani's commentary of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans the work of Giulio Clovio.

In 1874, an Englishman, Henry Maudsley, discovered a large segment of rock scarp and numerous ancient dressed stones on Mount Zion that were believed to be the base of Josephus's First Wall.

*( c. 97 ) Flavius Josephus Against Apion, or Against Apion, or Contra Apionem, or Against the Greeks, on the antiquity of the Jewish people ( usually abbreviated CA )

** Against Apion

Josephus, citing Tyrian court records and Menander in Against Apion, gives a specific year during which Hiram I of Tyre sent materials to Solomon for the construction of the temple.

A slightly different accounting can be found in the book Against Apion, by the 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus, who describes 22 sacred books: the five books of Moses, thirteen histories, and four books of hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.

Some of Posidonius ' arguments are refuted by Josephus in Against Apion.

Hiram was succeeded as king of Tyre by his son Baal-Eser I. Hiram is also mentioned in the writings of Menander of Ephesus, as preserved in Josephus ’ s Against Apion, where some additional information is given that is not found in the Bible.

He suppressed the rebellion of the first Tyrean colony at Utica, near the later site of Carthage ( Against Apion i: 18 ).

He also extended the Tyrean harbour, enlarged the city by joining the two islands on which it was built, and built a royal palace and a temple for Melqart ( Against Apion i: 17 ).

Pygmalion ’ s dates are derived from Josephus ’ s Against Apion i. 18, where Josephus quotes the Phoenician historian Menander as follows:

Josephus, citing Menander, says that “ in the seventh year of reign, his sister fled away from him, and built the city of Carthage in Libya ” ( Against Apion i: 18 ).

Primary information related to Ithobaal comes from Josephus ’ s citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Against Apion i. 18.

In his Against Apion, the 1st-century CE historian Josephus Flavius debates the synchronism between the Biblical account of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, and two Exodus-like events that the Egyptian historian Manetho apparently mentions.

Josephus identifies the Israelite Exodus with the first exodus mentioned by Manetho, when some 480, 000 Hyksos " shepherd kings " ( also referred to as just ' shepherds ', as ' kings ' and as ' captive shepherds ' in his discussion of Manetho ) left Egypt for Jerusalem .< ref name = " AA1: 86 – 90 "> Josephus, Flavius, < cite > Against Apion </ cite >, 1: 86 – 90 .</ ref > The mention of " Hyksos " identifies this first exodus with the Hyksos period ( 16th century BC ).

Apion's criticisms of Jewish culture and history were replied to by Josephus in Against Apion.

Indeed, Against Apion, the writing of Josephus in 95 CE, treated the text of the Hebrew Bible as a closed canon to which "... no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable ..." However, we know that for a long time following this date that the divine inspiration of Esther, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes was often under scrutiny.

* c. 1700-1550 BC: According to Manetho ( via Josephus ' Against Apion ), the Hyksos invade the region

The earliest and only surviving reference to Manetho's Aegyptiaca is that of the Jewish historian Josephus in his work " Against Apion ".

The earliest surviving attestation to Manetho is that of Josephus ' Contra Apionem, " Against Apion " nearly 4 centuries after Aegyptiaca was written.

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