Josephus Josephus FlaviusPevná vazba
Josephus Josephus FlaviusPevná vazba Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem…
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Josephus Josephus FlaviusPevná vazba
Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee.
Present at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, he received favours from these two as emperors and from Domitian and assumed their family name Flavius. In the troubles which followed he made his peace with Vespasian. He died after 97.As a historical source Josephus is invaluable.
His major works are: History of the Jewish War, in seven books, from 170 BCE to his own time, first written in Aramaic but translated by himself into the Greek we now have; and Jewish Antiquities, in twenty books, from the creation of the