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No source, other than the Bible itself, provides more relevant
information on the first century than the work of Flavius Josephus.
This newly edited version updates the original 18th century
language; includes commentary by the award winning author and
historian, Dr. Paul L. Maier; features over forty photos of ancient
sites and artifacts mentioned by Josephus; cross references numbers
throughout to the Greek text of Josephus in the Loeb Classical
Library; and offers revised indexes of subjects and Old Testament
texts.
Encounter the world and traditions that Jesus knew. Illuminate
your understanding of the New Testament. In The Complete Works you
will discover what the New Testament writers knew about Abraham,
Moses, Samuel, David, and Solomon and examine an in-depth history
of Herod and his infamous family.
Josephus left us the earliest independent accounts of the lives
of Jesus, John the Baptist, and James the brother of Jesus. Much of
what we know about the beliefs of the Sadducees and Pharisees comes
from Josephus. Without Josephus, we would know very little about
the Essenes, the ancient Jewish group most frequently associated
with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Features include:
"The War of the Jews"--an account of the Jewish revolt against Rome
up to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem"The Antiquities of
the Jews"--a history of the Jews from Creation to the Roman
occupation of Palestine"The Life of Flavius Josephus"--the
autobiography of Josephus, who fought against Rome and later served
the empire "Against Apion"--a defense of the origin of Judaism in
the face of Greco-Roman slanders"Discourse to the Greeks Concerning
Hades"--a text Whiston attributed to JosephusIndex of parallels
between Josephus's "Antiquities" and the Old Testament including
the Apocrypha
About Flavius Josephus
Josephus was a first-century Pharisee, soldier, informant to the
Romans, and writer. He left behind the most extensive writings on
ancient Jewish history still in existence.
You haven't completed your biblical understanding until you've
traveled back to the lands where it all took place. Now you can
hear the sounds and see the sights, meet the people who were there
when it happened. This comprehensive account from the legendary
Jewish historian takes you right into the action, setting up the
historical relevance of first-century events, taking you all the
way from Creation to Roman occupation. In the process, Josephus
provides substantial first-hand corroboration of the biblical
record. Most importantly, you'll meet the historical Jesus in
Josephus' writings, as well as John the Baptist and other familiar
faces. You'll be able to understand the background of the Bible
like never before.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT041090The last 16-pages contain "Proposals for
printing by subscription; .. authentick records concerning the
Jewish and Christian religions: .. By William Whiston, ..."London:
printed for J. Senex; and W. Taylor, 1724. 4],156,16p.; 8
Written in 75 AD by the Jewish historian and Roman citizen Titus
Flavius Josephus, "The Wars of the Jews" describes Jewish history
from the capture of Jerusalem in 164 BC to the destruction of that
city in 70 AD. Josephus was additionally an apologist with
ancestors of royalty and from the priesthood, and his uniquely
blended heritage allows an interesting perspective in 'The History
of the Destruction of Jerusalem, ' or 'The Jewish War.' Beginning
with Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid ruler who captured the
city, and going through the revolts against the Roman Empire to the
events of the First Jewish-Roman War in which Jerusalem was razed,
Josephus opens modern eyes to the conditions of Judaism in the
first century.
Collected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of
Flavius Josephus' The Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of the
Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish
people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins
with the creation of Adam and Eve, and follows the events of the
historical books of the Hebrew Bible, often adding information that
we might not otherwise have today. This work, along with Josephus's
other major work, The Jewish Wars, provides valuable background
material to anyone wishing to understand first-century Judaism and
the early Christian period. "I have undertaken the present work . .
. for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of
our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. And
indeed I did formerly intend, when I wrote of the war, to explain
who the Jews originally were, -what fortunes they had been subject
to, -and by what legislature they had been instructed in piety, and
the exercise of other virtues, -what wars also they had made in
remote ages, till they were unwillingly engaged in this last with
the Romans. . ."-Flavius Josephus
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