william whiston the works of flavius josephus

Procurator of Judea Florus, who antagonized the Jews leading to the Jewish Wars The banishment of the Jews living in Babylon Maccabean Revolt and the death of Judas MaccabeusĬompletion of King Herod's temple in Jerusalem Start of the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great The death of King Ahab in battle with the Syrian army, and the saving of the army by Jehoshaphatĭaniel and the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire The capture of the Ark by the Philistinesĭavid's ascension to the throne of the Kingdom of Israel

Antiquities of the Jews is separated into twenty volumes:įirst 2 years of the 40 years in the wilderness Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews is a vital source for the history of the Intertestamental period and the Jewish war against Rome. This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish War ( De Bello Iudaico), provides valuable background material for historians wishing to understand 1st-century CE Judaism and the early Christian period. The second ten volumes continues the history of the Jewish people beyond the biblical text and up to the Jewish War, or the First Jewish–Roman War (66 to 73 CE). In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve. Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of the history of the Jewish people for Josephus' gentile patrons. A leaf from the 1466 manuscript of the Antiquitates Iudaice, National Library of PolandĪntiquities of the Jews ( Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around CE 93 or 94.

William whiston the works of flavius josephus