josephus in English

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Josephus Flavius (AD 37-100?, born as Joseph Ben Matthias), Jewish historian and military man who participated in the Jewish rebellion against Rome, author of "History of the Jewish War"

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1. Flavius josephus the Antiquities of the jews :index

2. Of course, critics have assailed Josephus concerning this passage.

3. In The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus adds interesting detail to the Biblical account.

4. 15 Finally, consider the testimony of first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.

5. Josephus was a Jewish historian who lived circa 37-100 AD.

6. Josephus reports that over a million Jews died, and 97,000 were taken captive.

7. The most important of these are, of course, the Talmud and Josephus.

8. Josephus says: “When Titus entered he was astounded by the strength of the city . . .

9. In his final days, Herod “suffered horrible torments,” said the Jewish historian Josephus.

10. The same name is in Berosus’s Babylonics, as Josephus testifies in his ancient history, book 10, chap

11. “There was a great deal of gold in the City,” according to an eyewitness, the historian Josephus.

12. Joseph Paul Billat was born Josephus to Joannes Billat and Sophia Mucha in Poland on July 4th 1892

13. Josephus describes how mammoth stone blocks were lowered into place to form a great breakwater and extensive quaysides.

14. According to Jewish Antiquities, III, 288 (xii, 4), by Josephus, they served until 50 years of age

15. Josephus recounts another incident in which Pilate spent money from the Temple to build an aqueduct.

16. Josephus speaks of “a feast for eight days, which is called the feast of unleavened bread.”

17. In Egyptian Hyksos means "ruler(s) of foreign countries", however, Josephus mistranslated Hyksos as "Shepherd Kings".

18. Amixia among Judaeans and Others Steve Mason Philo and Josephus were fluent in the common cultural discourse of their world

19. And the same name is in Berosus’s Babylonics, as Josephus testifies in his ancient history, book x

20. Aside from the Gospel accounts, the historians Flavius Josephus and Philo are the main sources of information on Pilate.

21. Here she participated in the naval review, during which she was visited by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels on 4 September.

22. Josephus describes Caligula's improvements to the harbours at Rhegium and Sicily, allowing increased grain imports from Egypt, as his greatest contributions.

23. A variant of counting-out game, known as the Josephus problem, represents a famous theoretical problem in mathematics and computer science.

24. Here again it is a famous question whether what Flavius Josephus and Eusebius quote under the name of Hecataeus is authentic.

25. Apollonius Apollo'nius (Α᾿πολλώνιος, from Apollo), the name of several men in the history of the Maccabees and Josephus

26. Yet, it was hailed as “the ornament of all Galilee” by the noted first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.

27. Celibacy among Jews was a strictly sectarian practice; Josephus ascribes it to some of the *Essenes (Wars 2:120–21)

28. First-century Jewish historian Josephus applied the name of Halisas (Elishah) to the Halisaens (Aeolians), one of the parent branches of the Greek peoples.

29. According to Josephus, a historian of the first century C.E., the Egyptian army drove the Israelites “into a narrow place” and trapped them “between inaccessible precipices and the sea.”

30. JosephusProblem.cpp - #include<stdio.h>#include<iostream> using namespace std int Josephus(int n int k\/inde Biggening at 0 if(n=1 return 0 else

31. The Jewish Roman historian Josephus, writing in the 1st century AD, provides valuable information on the life of Cleopatra via her diplomatic relationship with Herod the Great.

32. His Egyptian nomen or birth name was actually Nesbanebdjed meaning "He of the Ram, Lord of Mendes" but it was translated into Greek as Smendes by later classical writers such as Josephus and Sextus Africanus.

33. (Ac 24:27) The year of this change in governors is not definitely known; the only sources of information are the Bible and Josephus, and neither sheds light on the appointment by Nero.

34. The Jewish historian Josephus described an incident around 000 years ago in which jealous residents of Masada, the desert fortress just up the road, raided Ein Gedi and stripped it of its wealth.

35. (2 Chronicles 36:5, 6, 11-21) As for Moab and Ammon, according to Jewish historian Josephus, in the fifth year after the fall of Jerusalem, the Babylonians waged war on them and conquered them.

36. That some great catastrophe, Betokening the impending destruction of the Temple, had occurred in the Sanctuary about this very time, is confirmed by not less than four mutually independent testimonies: those of Tacitus, of Josephus, of the Talmud, and of earliest Christian tradition

37. 7 Historian Flavius Josephus relates: “Cestius [Gallus], aware of neither the despair of the besieged nor the feelings of the people, suddenly called off his men, abandoned hope though he had suffered no reverse, and flying in the face of all reason retired from the City.”

38. 1809, Flavius Josephus, The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measures, page 402: and if his father had Chastised them with whips, they must expect that he would do it with scorpions

39. Also, Jewish historian Josephus states that in the year of the battle of Carchemish Nebuchadnezzar conquered all of Syria-Palestine “excepting Judea,” thus contradicting Berossus and conflicting with the claim that 70 years of Jewish servitude began in Nebuchadnezzar’s accession year. —Antiquities of the Jews X, vi, 1.

40. μόνη, μόνης, ἡ (μένω) (from Herodotus down), a staying, Abiding, dwelling, abode: John 14:2; μόνην ποιεῖν (L T Tr WH ποιεῖσθαι, as in Thucydides 1, 131; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 7; 13, 2, 1), to make an (one's) abode, παρά τίνι metaphorically, of God and Christ by their power and spirit exerting

41. Ba'-ruk, bar'-uk (baruk; Barouch, "blessed"): (1) Son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah, King Zedekiah's chamberlain (Jeremiah 51:59).He was the devoted friend (Jeremiah 32:12), the amanuensis (36:4,32) and faithful attendant (36:10; Josephus, Ant, X, vi, 2) of the prophet Jeremiah.He seems to have been of noble family (see Ant, X, ix, 1; compare Jeremiah 51:59; Baruch 1:1).