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 ).

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

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 ).

Robert S. Wistrich, a historian specializing in the study of anti-Semitism, described Hezbollah's ideology concerning Jews: " The anti-Semitism of Hezbollah leaders and spokesmen combines the image of seemingly invincible Jewish power ... and cunning with the contempt normally reserved for weak and cowardly enemies.

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.

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.

* The Romano-Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c. 100 AD ) describes it in his book The Jewish War ( 4. 10. 5 ) when he gives a geographical overview of Egypt.

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.

The Jewish historian Eupolemus, who wrote about 157 BC, included copies of apocryphal letters exchanged between Solomon and the kings of Egypt and Tyre.

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

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.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

Arafat's sister Inam stated in an interview with Arafat's biographer, British historian Alan Hart, that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services.

In the mid-20th century, the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem contended that de Leon himself was the most likely author of the Zohar.

** Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( d. 1982 )

* February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian ( b. 1897 )

* Josephus, Jewish historian

According to theologian John Barclay, the Moses of Artapanus " clearly bears the destiny of the Jews, and in his personal, cultural and military splendor, brings credit to the whole Jewish people.

Some sources indicate that under his reign, a military campaign against Nubia occurred ( the Jewish writer Artapanus mentions a king Chenephres (= Khaneferre?

The Therapeutae, pagan ascetic hermits and loosely organized cenobitic communities described by the Hellenized Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the first century, were long established in the harsh environments by Lake Mareotis close to Alexandria, and in other less-accessible regions.

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

Modern historians think that Orestes had cultivated his relationship with Hypatia to strengthen a bond with the Pagan community of Alexandria, as he had done with the Jewish one, to handle better the difficult political life of the Egyptian capital.

A strong force drawn from the Judaean and Syrian legions marched on Rome under the command of Mucianus, while Vespasian himself travelled to Alexandria, leaving Titus in charge of ending the Jewish rebellion.

The Stoic modification of Heraclitus ' idea of the Logos was also influential on Jewish philosophers such as Philo of Alexandria, who connected it to " Wisdom personified "

Jewish historians who lived at Alexandria, such as Eupolemus, attributed to Moses the feat of having taught the Phoenicians their alphabet, similar to legends of Thoth.

Alexandria had been a center of Jewish learning and became a center of Christian learning.

These titles refer to a legendary story, according to which seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.

* May 14 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi sets off from Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.

* Philo leads a Jewish delegation to Rome to protest the anti-Jewish conditions in Alexandria.

* Philo of Alexandria, Jewish philosopher ( b. 20 BC ) ( approximate date )

* September 8 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi, having completed the Kuzari, arrives in Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.

Egyptian Alexandria Jewish choir of Rabbin Moshe Cohen at Samuel Menashe synagogue.

The first to attempt to formulate Jewish principles of faith was Philo of Alexandria.

A strong force drawn from the Judaean and Syrian legions marched on Rome under the command of Mucianus, while Vespasian travelled to Alexandria, leaving Titus in charge to end the Jewish rebellion.

* Ptolemy II encourages the Jewish residents of Alexandria to have their Bible translated into Greek.

Cyril of Alexandria, Procopius of Gaza and others spoke of certain words missing from the Jewish Bible, but present in the Samaritan Pentateuch.

Hobsbawm was born in 1917 at Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Hobsbaum, a British colonial officer of Polish-Jewish descent, and Nelly Grün, who was from a middle-class Austrian Jewish family background, and his early childhood was spent in Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany.

Some went further east to the Arabic-speaking territories of the Ottoman Empire, settling among the long-established Arabic-speaking Jewish communities in Baghdad, Damascus and Alexandria.

Greek philosophy, science, medicine and mathematics was absorbed by Jewish scholars living in the Arab world due to Arabic translations of those texts ; remnants of the Library of Alexandria.

However, Pompey's pawns soon had occasion to turn to the other side: " At the beginning of the civil war between and Pompey, Hyrcanus, at the instance of Antipater, prepared to support the man to whom he owed his position ; but when Pompey was murdered, Antipater led the Jewish forces to the help of Caesar, who was hard pressed at Alexandria.

Cohen was born in Alexandria to a devout Orthodox Jewish and Zionist family in 1924.