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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS: |
 | | Josephus' numerous and comprehensive writings are of value not only for the historical data which they contain, but also as an apology of Judaism. | | | That Josephus wrote wholly from a Jewish point of view may be seen from his misunderstanding of the use of terms by non-Jewish authorities. | | | Josephus gives as his reason for writing this history the contradictory reports circulated either to flatter the Romans or to disparage the Jews (ib. |
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| | Josephus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hence, many have viewed Josephus as a traitor and informer and questioned his credibility as a historian — dismissing his works as Roman propaganda or as a personal apologetic, aimed at rehabilitating his reputation in history. | | | It was against this background that Josephus wrote his War, and although often dismissed as pro-Roman propaganda (perhaps hardly surprising given where his patronage was coming from) he claims to be writing to counter anti-Judean accounts. | | | Thus, according to Josephus, the traditional Jew was, should be, and can be, a loyal and peace-loving citizen. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus
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| | Josephus Unbound |
| | Josephus, in Jewish War 3.5.8, declares that one of his purposes in writing is “to deter others who may be tempted to revolt.” This would hardly be accomplished by saying that Jerusalem fell because of the manipulative actions of the Jewish God. | | | Although it may well be that we owe Josephus’ survival through the Middle Ages to the unknown Christian interpolator who gave us the Testimonium, it is time to release Josephus from his Christian captivity—and from the bonds of those who continue to claim him as a witness to the existence of an historical Jesus. | | | Josephus, so the claim goes, would not have inserted such a skeletal reference to Jesus, the one identifying James as his brother, if he had not given the reader some fuller account of him at some previous point. |
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| | Historicity Of Jesus FAQ |
| | In particular, Josephus probably did not claim that Jesus was the Messiah, or that he rose from the dead. | | | It is hard to imagine that Josephus, a Pharisaic Jew, would write such a laudatory passage about a man supposedly killed for blasphemy. | | | In addition, not only have some alleged references to Jesus been lost as primary sources, but some early criticisms of Christianity were suppressed by the early Church and no longer survive. |
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| | Flavius Josephus |
| | The Jewish aristocrats -to which Flavius Josephus belonged- are of course not to blame for the war. | | | It is unlikely that a pious Jew like Flavius Josephus would have written that Jesus 'appeared to them on the third day, living again'; consequently, there has been a lot of scholarly debate about the explanation of this strange remark. | | | Flavius Josephus' kindness towards his Roman benefactors does not mean that he is negative about the Jews. |
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http://www.livius.org/jo-jz/josephus/josephus.htm
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| | Josephus and Jesus. Christ Myth Refuted. Did Jesus Exist? A Christian Response |
| | Since Josephus was not a contemporary of Jesus or his ministry, his methods were such that he naturally would write less about people like Jesus or John the Baptist, and only what could be corroborated by inquiry in his own day, writing in the 90s AD. | | | Thackery saw this as a pejorative term for the Christians; Meier disagrees, for Josephus also uses it to describes the Jews, and Eusebius uses it to describe Christians. | | | Josephus is discussing Jewish troubles, and the Testimonium is out of place. |
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http://www.tektonics.org/jesusexist/josephus.html
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Josephus (37 CE) |
| | In his Autobiography (phlaouiou Iosepou bios), written A.D. 90, Josephus seeks, not without attempts at self-glorification, to justify his position at the beginning of the Jewish rising. | | | His works were written in elegant Greek, to influence the educated class of his time, and free them from various prejudices against Judaism. | | | Josphus wrote an account of the war addressed to the Jewish community in Mesopotamia in Aramaic which is now lost. |
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http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=65
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| | Josephus |
| | His constant need to explain his role in the unsuccessful Jewish uprising that climaxed with the destruction of the Jerusalem temple led him to publish four works [in Greek] that are our prime source for information about events that shaped the history of Jews of the second temple period. | | | Study of the Works of Josephus - Annette Yoshiko Reed's hub for current Josephus research archives many papers from recent scholarly conferences and publication projects. | | | By the time he returned to Jerusalem, however, the Jewish revolt had already begun [66 CE]. |
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| | Josephus Flavius |
| | Josephus Flavius was a Jew who grew up in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Common Era. | | | However, because of Josephus' proclivity to depend on hearsay and legend, scholars are never sure what to accept as fact. | | | So long as we retain some skepticism, his writings provide us with the greatest insight into what happened to the Jewish people during that five hundred year period. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Josephus.html
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| | John The Baptist In the New Testament and Josephus |
| | Josephus tells us that this marriage of Herod the Tetrarch and Herodias led directly to war with the neighboring Arab king, King Aretas; for Herod had been married to Aretas' daughter. | | | It was this battle that the Jews of Galilee associated with Herod's treatment of John the Baptist, says Josephus. | | | If we put aside more speculations, the concrete proposal Saulnier makes is that Josephus has confused the occasion of Vitellius' presence in Jerusalem for the Passover of 37 CE, when the news of Tiberius' death was received. |
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| | The Credibility of Josephus - Magen Broshi @ CenturyOne Bookstore |
| | Finally, we read: "Even if, as they (Josephus' critics) assert, they have read the commentaries of the imperial commanders, they at any rate had no first-hand acquaintance with our position in the opposite camp" (Against Apion, 56). | | | Matters such as his credibility, accuracy and sources are therefore foremost among the topics which should occupy scholarship. | | | Yet he outdoes even himself in His estimate, in the last cited passage, that in the census carried out under Cestius celebrants at the Passover sacrifices amounted to more than two million seven hundred thousand. |
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| | Josh McDowell's "Evidence" for Jesus -- Is It Reliable? |
| | Likewise, the fact that Origen simply expressed disappointment that Josephus "did not believe in Jesus as Christ" but never quoted the Testimonium is consistent with the view that the reconstructed Testimonium is authentic. | | | For example, New Testament scholar R.T. France has argued that Josephus is simply listing events that happened during or near Pilate's reign.[36] And Steve Mason thinks that Josephus is merely "trying to paint a picture of escalating tension for Jews around the world."[37] It is therefore unclear why the Testimonium is "out of context." | | | But the younger Ananus who, as we said, received the high priesthood, was of a bold disposition and exceptionally daring; he followed the party of the Sadducees, who are severe in judgment above all the Jews, as we have already shown. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jeff_lowder/jury/chap5.html
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| | Flavius Josephus History of the Jews |
| | The history of the Jews prior to the revolt, based on the Bible, other Jewish writings, and the works of previous historians. | | | The history of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire in the years 66-74 AD/CE, as experienced by Flavius Josephus himself. | | | A defense of Judaism, answering an attack by a Roman author. |
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http://bible.christiansunite.com/josindex.shtml
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| | Flavius Josephus Home Page |
| | With history being written in Gaza in recent days (August 2005), it is enriching to review the political situation of that region during the last era in which it felt the influence of a Jewish state: the era recorded by Josephus. | | | This differs from the Wheaton site which is in HTML (web page) format and has use restrictions. | | | This site is dedicated to the works of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (37 |
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| | The Works of Flavius Josephus |
| | Unable to convince the rebels to surrender, Josephus ended up watching the second destruction of the Temple and the defeat of the Jewish nation. | | | His prophecy became true in 68 C.E. when Nero committed suicide and Vespasian became Ceasar. | | | Despite his ambivalent role, Josephus was an eyewitness to history, and his writings are considered authoritative. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus
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| | Josephus, Flavius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Josephus’ historical works are among the most valuable sources for the study of early Judaism and early Christianity. | | | 1968); T. Rajak, Josephus (1983); L. Feldman, Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1984); L. Feldman and H. Gohei, ed., Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (1987). | | | See H. St. John Thackeray, Josephus (1929, rev. ed. |
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| | (12) How Josephus could say here that the Jewish laws forbade them to "spoil even their enemies, while yet, a little before his time, our Savior had mentioned it as then a current maxim with them, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy," Matthew 5:43, is worth our inquiry. | | | This was like the, or austere diet of the Christian ascetics in Passion-week. | | | (21) This appeal to the whole body of the Galileans by Josephus, and the testimony they gave him of integrity in his conduct as their governor, is very like that appeal and testimony in the case of the prophet Samuel, 1 Samuel 12:1-5, and perhaps was done by Josephus in imitation of him. |
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http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/autobiog.htm
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| | The Wars Of The Jews; or The History of the Destruction Of Jerusalem |
| | National Geographic: Tunnels Found in Israel Used In Ancient Jewish Revolt "Josephus.. | | | As Josephus spoke these words, with groans and tears in his eyes, his voice was intercepted by sobs. | | | However, the Romans could not but pity the affliction he was under, and wonder at his conduct. |
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| | The Antiquities Of The Jews by Flavius Josephus - Book 1, Chapter 1 - at BibleStudy.org |
| | Books/Chapters of Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus | | | The Antiquities Of The Jews by Flavius Josephus - Book 1, Chapter 1 - at BibleStudy.org | | | Many inducements there are also to a notion, that the present state they are in, is not their original state; and that their capacities have been once much greater than we now see them, and are capable of being restored to their former condition. |
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| | ipedia.com: Nabataeans Article |
| | Josephus suggests, and Jerome affirms, that the name is identical with that of the Ishmaelite tribe of Nbioth, which in later Old Testament times had a leading place among the northern Arabs, and is associated with Kedar much as Pliny associates Nabataei and Cedrei. | | | The Nabataeans, a people of ancient Arabia, whose settlements in the time of Josephus gave the name of Nabatene to the border-land between Syria and Arabia from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. |
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| | Daniels, Josephus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Moses and the princess: Josephus' 'Antiquitates Judaicae' and the chansons de geste. | | | DANIELS, JOSEPHUS [Daniels, Josephus] 1862-1948, American statesman, newspaper editor, and author, b. | | | Washington, N.C. He became editor of the Raleigh State Chronicle in 1885 (he was admitted to the bar the same year) and in 1894 consolidated three newspapers into the Raleigh News and Observer. |
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| | The Works of Flavius Josephus |
| | If you would like the works of Josephus on CD, along with hundreds of other ancient and modern authors, contact Ages Software at |
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