However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

Parallels between Acts and Josephus ' The Wars of the Jews ( written in 75-80 ) and Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 94 ) have long been argued.

Here Acts 12: 21-23 is largely parallel to Antiquities 19. 8. 2 ; ( 2 ) the cause of the Egyptian pseudo-prophet in Acts 21: 37f and in Josephus ( War 2. 13. 5 ; Antiquities 20. 8. 6 ); ( 3 ) the curious resemblance as to the order in which Theudas and Judas of Galilee are referred to in both ( Acts 5: 36f ; Antiquities 20. 5. 1 ).

* Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, ( trans.

The ancient Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus narrates in his book Jewish Antiquities XII, how the victorious Judas Maccabeus ordered lavish yearly eight-day festivities after rededicating the Temple in Jerusalem that had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

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

Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93 – 94 AD, includes two references to Jesus in Books 18 and 20 and a reference to John the Baptist in Book 18.

The overwhelming majority of modern scholars consider the reference in Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 of the Antiquities to " the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James " to be authentic and to have the highest level of authenticity among the references of Josephus to Christianity.

The references found in Antiquities have no parallel texts in the other work by Josephus such as the Jewish War, written 20 years earlier, but some scholars have provided explanations for their absence.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 ) Josephus refers to the stoning of " James the brother of Jesus " by order of Ananus ben Ananus, a Herodian-era High Priest who died c. 68 AD.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 18, Chapter 5, 2 ) Josephus refers to the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist by order of Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Perea.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

Of the three passages found in Josephus ' Antiquities, this passage, if authentic, would offer the most direct support for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Among other things, the authenticity of this passage would help make sense of the later reference in Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 where Josephus refers to the stoning of " James the brother of Jesus ".

Although there is no doubt that most ( but not all ) of the later copies of the Antiquities contained references to Jesus and John the Baptist, it cannot be definitively shown that these were original to Josephus writings, and were not instead added later by Christian interpolators.

Book 20 of the Antiquities do not appear in any other versions of Josephus ' The Jewish War except for a Slavonic version of the Testimonium Flavomium ( at times called Testimonium Slavonium ) which surfaced in the west at the beginning of the 20th century, after its discovery in Russia at the end of the 19th century.

These additional manuscript sources of the Testimonium have furnished additional ways to evaluate Josephus ' mention of Jesus in the Antiquities, principally through a close textual comparison between the Arabic, Syriac and Greek versions to the Testimonium.

And again in his Commentary on Matthew ( Book X, Chapter 17 ) Origen refers to Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews by name and that Josephus had stated that the death of James had brought a wrath upon those who had killed him.

However, although both the gospels and Josephus refer to Herod Antipas killing John the Baptist, they differ on the details and motives, e. g. whether this act was a consequence of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias ( as indicated in Matthew 14: 4, Mark 6: 18 ), or a pre-emptive measure by Herod which possibly took place before the marriage to quell a possible uprising based on the remarks of John, as Josephus suggests in Antiquities 18. 5. 2.

Josephus stated ( Antiquities 18. 5. 2 ) that the AD 36 defeat of Herod Antipas in the conflicts with Aretas IV of Nabatea was widely considered by the Jews of the time as misfortune brought about by Herod's unjust execution of John the Baptist.

In the same Book I chapter, in items 7 and 8 Eusebius also discusses the Josephus reference to the crucifixion of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a reference that is present in all surviving Eusebius manuscripts.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

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 ".

13: 28 and Josephus Antiquities XI. 7. 2 ; 8. 2.

Josephus also related that Hiram ’ s reign began 155 years and 8 months before this event, and that construction of Solomon's Temple began in the twelfth year of Hiram's Reign, which would be 143 years before the building of Carthage.

The redundancy inherent in these multiple ways of expressing the total years ( the 143 years is mentioned twice, and the 155 years minus 12 years once ) has guaranteed that all extant copies of Josephus / Menander that contain these passages give 155 years and 8 months between the start of Hiram ’ s reign and the foundation of Carthage.

In a 1951 article, J. Liver argued that the 825 date has some credibility because, with it, the elapsed time between that date and the start of building of Solomon ’ s Temple, given as 143 years and 8 months in Menander / Josephus, agrees very closely with the date of approximately 967 BC for the start of Temple construction as derived from 1 Kings 6: 1 ( fourth year of Solomon ) and the date given by most historians for the end of Solomon ’ s forty-year reign, i. e. 932 or 931 BC.

Josephus ( Antiquities 12. 8. 1 ; War 1. 2. 3 ) mentions a place named Dagon above Jericho.

Josephus, writing in about AD 90 ( Jewish Antiquities 4. 8. 44 ), placed the city between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.

Josephus says in his Antiquity of the Jews, book 8 chapter 6, that it was the " queen of Egypt and Ethiopia " who visited King Solomon.

******* Josephus Hyacinthus Moretus ( 1762 – 1810 ) married Maria Henrica Coleta Wellens ; they had 8 children

Josephus AD, in his Antiquities of the Jews xi, 8, 5 tells of a visit that Alexander is purported to have made to Jerusalem, where he met the high priest Jaddua and the assembled Jews, and was shown the book of Daniel in which it was prophesied that some one of the Greeks would overthrow the empire of Persia.

Hebrew University Professor Ehud Netzer reported on May 8, 2007 that he had discovered the tomb of Herod, above tunnels and water pools at a flattened site halfway up the hill to Herodium, south of Jerusalem, at the precise location given by Josephus in his writings.

Josephus on Apion's blood libel ( Against Apion 2: 8 ):

The reference comes from Book 3, Chapter 8, par 7 of Josephus ' The Jewish War ( writing of himself in the third person ):

Flavius Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews ( Chapter 8: 76 ) refers to Hiram as τεχνίτης, artificer, craftsman.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

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.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

Three points of contact with Josephus in particular are cited: ( 1 ) The circumstances attending the death of Agrippa I in 44.

Josephus, a contemporary, reports that " Jerusalem ... was so thoroughly razed to the ground by those that demolished it to its foundations, that nothing was left that could ever persuade visitors that it had once been a place of habitation.

i. 18a ; compare Josephus, B. J. ii. 14, § 5 ; Jastrow, Dict.

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

Bar-Hebraeus identified Ahasuerus explicitly as Artaxerxes II ; however, the names are not necessarily equivalent: Hebrew has a form of the name Artaxerxes distinct from Ahasuerus, and a direct Greek rendering of Ahasuerus is used by both Josephus and the Septuagint for occurrences of the name outside the Book of Esther.

The names are indeed unattested in Persian texts as gods, however the Talmud ( Sanhedrin 61b ) and Rashi both record a practice of deifying Haman and Josephus speaks of him being worshipped.

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.