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 ...

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 ...

At the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies of the University of Oxford an international conference, “Reception of Josephus Flavius in Judaism of the 20th and early 21st centuries” took place, reports ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...