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 ...

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 ...