The 2nd century chronicler Hegesippus also left an account of the death of James, and while the details he provides diverge from those of Josephus, the two accounts share similar elements.

Moreover, in comparison with Hegesippus ' account of James ' death, most scholars consider Josephus ' to be the more historically reliable.

The 4th century writings of Eusebius of Caesarea refer to Josephus ' account of James, John and Jesus.

Josephus ' account places the date of the death of James as AD 62.

However, the account of Josephus differs from that of later works by Hegesippus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea that it simply has James stoned while the others have other variations such as having James thrown from the top of the Temple, stoned, and finally beaten to death by laundrymen as well as his death occurring during the siege of Jerusalem in AD 69.

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.

Wells further states that differences between the Josephus account and those of Hegesippus and Clement of Alexandria may point to interpolations in the James passage.

Richard Bauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned the James passage, " the vast majority have considered it to be authentic ", and that among the several accounts of the death of James the account in Josephus is generally considered to be historically the most reliable.

John Painter states that the difference in the context for the Jewish Wars and the Antiquities may also account for some of the differences in tone between them, e. g. when writing of Ananus in a positive tone in the Jewish Wars the context was Ananus ' prudence in avoiding a war and hence Josephus considered that a positive aspect.

Accounts of John in the New Testament appear compatible with the account in Josephus.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus gives a slightly different account in his Antiquities of the Jews.

An account of John the Baptist is found in all extant manuscripts of the Jewish Antiquities ( book 18, chapter 5, 2 ) by Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ):

Together with the account in his Life of some of the same events, it also provides the reader with an overview of Josephus ' own part in the events since his return to Jerusalem from a brief visit to Rome in the early 60s ( Life 13 – 17 ).

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of his marriage to an Ethiopian, Josephus explains the marriage of Moses to this Ethiopian in the Antiquities of the Jews and about him being the only one through whom the Lord spoke.

Manetho for instance in a distorted account reported in Josephus, states that Moses was originally Osarseph a renegade priest, who led a band of lepers out of Avaris ( referred to as Raamses in the Bible ).

The single account of the Massacre comes in the Gospel of Matthew: it is not mentioned in Luke's gospel or by any contemporaneous historians, or by the later Roman Jewish historian, Josephus.

The description of Herod Agrippa I as a cruel, heartless king who persecuted the Jerusalem church, having James son of Zebedee killed and imprisoning Peter, stands in stark contrast with Josephus ' account of a kindly man.

The most complete ancient account of this event is The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus.

There is, however, good reason to doubt this account by Josephus.

Furthermore, this account may represent a piece of Pharisaic apologetics due to Josephus ’ Pharisaic background.

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

According to Josephus, Berenice requested this marriage to dispel rumors that she and her brother were carrying on an incestuous relationship, with Polemon being persuaded to this union mostly on account of her wealth.

The first detailed account in English was written by Smart Lethieullier, who was living in Paris in 1732-3, and was acquainted with Lancelot and de Montfaucon: it was not published, however, until 1767, as an appendix to Andrew Ducarel's Anglo-Norman Antiquities.

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

Josephus, the author of the most extensive historical account of the Second Temple Period, gives an extensive account of Jewish sectarianism in both Jewish War and Antiquities.

In 1742 he visited the Royston Cave at Royston, Hertfordshire and a year later he published his Palaeographia Britannica or discourses on Antiquities in Britain no. I, Origines Roystonianae, or an account of the Oratory of lady Roisia, Foundress of Royston discovered in Royston in August 1742.

He purportedly wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600 entitled Typographical Antiquities ( 1749 ).

* ‘ Typographical Antiquities, being an historical account of printing in England, with some memoirs of our antient printers, and a register of the books printed by them, from the year 1471 to 1600, with an appendix concerning printing in Scotland and Ireland to the same time ,’ London, 1749.

Most modern scholars also view Josephus ' account ( in Antiquities 18. 5. 2 ) of the execution of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas, and the marriage of Herod and Herodias to be authentic.

Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus ' gentile patrons.

Josephus also adds a short account of his personal life, Vita, as an appendix to the Judean Antiquities.

An early antiquarian account by Mr Eyston was given in Hearse's History and Antiquities of Glastonbury, 1722: " There is a person about Glastonbury who has a nursery of them, who, Mr. Paschal tells us he is informed, sells them for a crown a piece, or as he can get.

John Aubrey, in his Antiquities of Surrey gives us the following account:

The result of this work was the 160 page report he published in 1820 in the first volume of the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society under the title “ Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States .” The account is well illustrated with woodcuts of artifacts and with engraved maps of prehistoric sites, including one of Circleville itself ( Plate v ) where the earthworks have long since been obliterated.

This " historical account " has much of Eusebius's own theological agenda intertwined with the factual text including his view on God, Christ, the Scriptures, the Jews, the church, pagans, and heretics.

Apart from Legends of the Jews, perhaps his best known scholarly work was his Geonica ( 1909 ), an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.

By his account, the Pharaoh Bocchoris, suffering from a plague, banished the Jews in response to an oracle of the god Zeus-Amun.

He developed a number of contacts in France, where his work continued to be taught, and a number of French students visited him at Todtnauberg ( see, for example, Jean-François Lyotard's brief account in Heidegger and " the Jews ", which discusses a Franco-German conference held in Freiburg in 1947, one step toward bringing together French and German students ).

An alternative account of John's death, ascribed by later Christian writers to the early second century bishop Papias of Hierapolis, claims that he was slain by the Jews.

The site is held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims ; the name of the area, is el-Muhraqa, an Arabic construction meaning " place of burning ", and is a direct reference to the biblical account.

However, a 2007 study published by the University of Manchester asserted that three out of every four British Jewish births are Haredi, who now account for 45, 500 out of around 275, 000 Jews in the UK, or 17 %.

The Wars of the Jews offers a first-hand, eye-witness account on the Jewish rebellion and the character of Titus.

In Matthew's account, magi from the east go to Judea in search of the newborn king of the Jews, having " seen his star in the east ".

This area was primarily a bazaar, with vendors selling souvenirs, sacrificial animals, food, as well as currency changers, exchanging Roman for Tyrian money because the Jews were not allowed to coin their own money and they viewed Roman currency as an abomination to the Lord, as also mentioned in the New Testament account of Jesus and the Money Changers.

Rather than an accurate account of Jesus ' relationship to Pharisees and other Jewish leaders, this view holds that the Gospels instead reflect the competition and conflict between early Christians and Pharisees for leadership of the Jews, or reflects Christian attempts to distance themselves from Jews in order to present themselves in a more sympathetic ( and benign ) light to Romans and other Gentiles — thus making them a biased source concerning the conduct of the Pharisees.

This loss of priestly status over time may account for the 1. 5 % of non-Kohen Jews who very closely match the Y chromosome sequence that is most common amongst Kohanim.

" At a conference on the day after the pogrom, Hermann Göring said: " The Jewish problem will reach its solution if, in any time soon, we will be drawn into war beyond our border — then it is obvious that we will have to manage a final account with the Jews.

According to the French police account, he shouted " You ’ re a filthy boche " and said he was acting in the name of 12, 000 persecuted Jews.

Posidonius ' writings on the Jews were probably the source of Diodorus Siculus ' account of the siege and possibly also for Strabo.

In ‘ Neighbors ’ Gross gave a gripping account, containing horrifying scenes of Jews being assaulted, rounded up and killed, describing how on " one day, in July 1941, half of the population of a small East European town murdered the other half-some 1, 600 men, women and children.

In total, the Vichy government participated in the deportation of 76, 000 Jews to German extermination camps, although this number varies depending on the account ; only 2, 500 survived the war.

The all-white and black-and-white varieties have traditionally been the commonest, with the blue-and-white variety becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years among non-Orthodox Jews on account of the association of blue and white with the State of Israel.

Today there are around 12, 000 Jews in Spain and 2, 500 in Portugal ( although it must be taken into account that, when expelled from Portugal, Jews were allowed to stay if they converted to Christianity, resulting in a high percentage being assimilated in the Portuguese population.

An 11th century Moorish poem describes Jews as " a criminal people " and alleges that " society is nearing collapse on account of Jewish wealth and domination, their exploitation and betrayal of Muslims ; that Jews worship the devil, physicians poison their patients, and Jews poison food and water as required by Judaism, and so on.