A life and times of the very interesting, and ever controversial Flavius Josephus. Raphael discusses Josephus within the framework of his times, and there’s much useful material here for the student ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. For ...

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 ...

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 ...