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.

Both Philo, who wrote during Tiberius's reign, and Josephus record Tiberius as dying a natural death.

Josephus wrote all of his surviving works after his establishment in Rome ( c. AD 71 ) under the patronage of the Flavian Emperor Vespasian.

Josephus wrote that his revelation had taught him three things: that God, the creator of the Jewish people, had decided to " punish " them, that " fortune " had been given to the Romans, and that God had chosen him " to announce the things that are to come ".

While in Rome and under Flavian patronage, Josephus wrote all of his known works.

It was against this background that Josephus wrote his War, and although this work has often been dismissed as pro-Roman propaganda ( hardly a surprising view, given the source of his patronage ), he claims to be writing to counter anti-Judean accounts.

Other scholars suggest that at the time Josephus wrote, such books as Esther and Ecclesiastes were not yet considered canonical.

While under the emperor's patronage, Josephus wrote that after the Roman Legio X Fretensis, accompanied by Vespasian, destroyed Jericho on 21 June 68, Vespasian took a group of Jews who could not swim ( possibly Essenes from Qumran ), fettered them, and threw them into the Dead Sea to test the sea's legendary buoyancy.

It was while in Rome, and under Flavian patronage, that Josephus wrote all of his known works.

The first-century historian Flavius Josephus was so impressed by the area that he wrote, " One may call this place the ambition of Nature.

Also the early historian Flavius Josephus, who detailed a history of the Jewish people and wrote an account of the Jewish Rebellion of 67.

The 1st-century CE Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, however, understood this to mean that Jephthah burned his daughter on Yahweh's altar, whilst pseudo-Philo, late first century CE, wrote that Jephthah offered his daughter as a burnt offering because he could find no sage in Israel who would cancel his vow.

Josephus wrote:

Hardy wrote quickly, often adapting plays from French, foreign and classical sources ( Ovid, Lucian, Plutarch, Xenophon, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge de Montemayor, Boccaccio, François de Rosset ).

Concerning the question of the ethnic affinity of the population of Tubal, Josephus wrote: " Tobal gave rise to the Thobeles, who are now called Iberes "-Caucasian Iberia.

In his The Jewish War Josephus wrote:

Josephus explains this rendering by critiquing its author: Nicolaus needed and wrote to please Herod and would do so at the cost of truthfulness.

Our principal source for the story is Josephus, who wrote:

The 18th century theologian John Gill wrote " Some think Josephus is mistaken in his chronology, and then all is right.

Contemporaneously or perhaps after Josephus wrote, an Epitome, or summary, of Manetho's work must have appeared.

Seven centuries after Josiah's death, Josephus also wrote an account of the events.

Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder ( 7 May 1882-31 May 1960 ), was a Flemish writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot (.

And the writers on Athenian history, Hellanicus and Philochorus ( who wrote Atthis ), Castor and Thallus and Alexander Polyhistor, and also those most wise of men, Philo and Josephus ... these men mention Moses, as they do the very old and ancient origin of the Jews.

In the book, Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus wrote:

R. T. France argues for plausibility on the grounds, inter alia, that “ the murder of a few infants in a small village not on a scale to match the more spectacular assassinations recorded by Josephus ”; Schnackenburg follows this line also, and Gordon Franz points to Josephus ' failure to mention other pivotal events in the first century AD, such as " the episode of the golden Roman shields in Jerusalem which was the cause of the bad blood between Herod Antipas and Pontus ( sic ) Pilate ".

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 ).

The plot was borrowed from Josephus and the romance of ‘ Cleopatra .’ In 1678 appeared ‘ The Siege of Babylon, by Samuel Pordage of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., author of the tragedy of “ Herod and Mariamne .”’ This play had been licensed by Roger L ' Estrange on 2 November 1677, and acted at the Duke's Theatre not long after the production at the Theatre Royal of Nathaniel Lee's ‘ Rival Queens ;’ and Statira and Roxana, the ‘ rival queens ,’ were principal characters in Pordage's rhymed tragedy.

Josephus would declare him the first Jew in 481 years to “ wear the diadem on his head ” ( Ant.

Although the exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear there is broad consensus as to what the original text of the Testimonium by Josephus would have looked like.

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.

Although Josephus ' account of the method of death of James differs from that of the New Testament, this is seen as an indication that the Josephus account is not a Christian interpolation.

Although he uses " Josephus ", he appears to have taken the Roman praenomen Titus and nomen Flavius from his patrons.

Although the exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear there is broad consensus as to what the original text of the Testimonium by Josephus would have looked like.

Although he had significant support from many inside and outside the Corps, including John Lejeune and Josephus Daniels, two other Marine Corps generals were seriously considered for the post, Ben H. Fuller and John H. Russell.

Although Josephus argues that the Urim and Thummim continued to be used until the era of the Maccabees, Talmudic sources are unanimous in agreeing that the Urim and Thummim were lost much earlier, when Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians.

Although Josephus used the term for the national restoration of the Jews, the core tenets of the political ideology of fascism earn its description as a " palingenetic ideology ", primarily as a result of the notion that fascism itself is the rebirth of a state and / or empire in the image of that which came before it-thus, the ancestral political underpinnings.

While Josephus identifies the location of the imprisonment of John as Machaerus, southeast of the mouth of the Jordan river, the gospels mention no location for the place where John was imprisoned.

A careful reading of Josephus ' writings and years of excavation allowed Ehud Netzer, an archaeologist from Hebrew University, to discover the location of Herod's Tomb, after a search of 35 years.

According to the 1906 Jewish encyclopedia, The Letter of Aristeas states that creators of the Septuagint washed their hands in the sea each morning before prayer ; Josephus states that this custom was the reason for the traditional location of synagogues near water.

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.

The location provides a date for this legend, since the site of Eleutheropolis was a mere village in the 1st century, whose inhabitants were slain and enslaved with others by Vespasian in AD 68 ( Josephus, Bell.

According to Flavius Josephus, it is the location of the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist.