The author of The Jewish War—our sole account of the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Romans—has always been one of the Ancient World’s most controversial figures. Born Joseph ben ...

Josephus was a first century Jewish historian. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Josephus’s second work, the Jewish Antiquities (Ioudaike Archaiologia), contains in twenty books the whole ...

THE WORLD OF JOSEPHUS by G. A. Williamson. 318 pp. Little, Brown. $6. Two of the most momentous centuries in the history of the Jewish people would be almost a total blank were it not for the writings ...

Opinion: Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is the only independent source to attest to the existence and fate of Jesus, John the Baptist and James. I am frequently asked about independent evidence of ...

Until recently, no ancient historian was more widely read than the first-century soldier-statesman Flavius Josephus, the greatest source of our knowledge of the Holy Land "between the Testaments." In ...

A SINGLE FART caused the violent deaths of 10,000 people back in ancient Jerusalem. That’s according to one Roman historian, who wrote that a poorly timed trump was responsible for a deadly riot 2,500 ...

Alternately hailed as the grand chronicler of the Jewish war with the Romans and reviled as a traitorous propagandist for the Roman emperor, the Jewish historian Josephus (37–c. 100 C.E.) captured ...