Jesus of Nazareth wasn’t launched by a PR team or a marketing campaign. He was a Jewish preacher executed around AD 30 under Pontius Pilate, a Roman governor that historians outside the Bible mention ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tour guides leading thousands of visitors to Masada each year follow a similar routine: Where Roman troops breached the walls, they retell Josephus Flavius’s account of how a group of obsessive, ...

Recently we began looking at claims that the Jewish historian Josephus (A.D. 37-c. 100) said that his people believed in reincarnation. This is not true. As we’ve already seen, there were two general ...

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 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 ...