Among Jewish writers of antiquity, no figure is more paradoxical than Flavius Josephus. Born in Jerusalem in 37 CE, a priest and general who defected to Rome during the Jewish revolt, Josephus ...

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 ...

One of our most important sources for all the history of this period is the Jewish historian, Josephus. Josephus himself grew up in and around Jerusalem; he claims to have been a part of the Pharisaic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Various scholars have opined, on the basis of one or other text of the Antiquities, that Josephus evidences an "anti-Levite" tendency. This ...

Okay, neither Josephus nor the author of his biography, A Jew Among Romans, was/is a painter, poet, or critic like the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century. So I’ve cheated a little in giving this ...

Reviewed Work: Les Antiquités Juives, Volume I: Livres I à III by Etienne NODET, Gilles BERCEVILLE, André PAUL, Elisabeth WARSCHAWSKI The Journal for the Study of Judaism is a leading international ...