Antiquities Of Thejews.Preface : Antiquities of the Jews -- Preface (1) 1. THOSE who undertake to write histories, do not, I perceive, take that trouble on one and the same account, but for many reasons, and those such as are very different one from another. For some of them apply themselves to this part of learning to show their...
The Life Offlavius Josephus : The Life OF Flavius Josephus 1. THE family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family. Now, I am...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book X : Antiquities of the Jews - Book X FROM THE CAPTIVITY OF THE TEN TRIBES TO THE FIRST YEAR OF CYRUS. CHAPTER 1. 1. IT was now the fourteenth year of the government of Hezekiah, king of the two tribes, when the king of Assyria, whose name was Sennacherib, made an expedition against him with a gre...
Book I. Part 1 : 1. I SUPPOSE that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, (2) have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how we came...
Book Viii : FROM THE DEATH OF DAVID TO THE DEATH OF AHAB. CHAPTER 1. 1. WE have already treated of David, and his virtue, and of the benefits he was the author of to his countrymen; of his wars also and battles, which he managed with success, and then died an old man, in the foregoing book. And when Solom...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Ii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book II FROM THE DEATH OF ISAAC TO THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT. CHAPTER 1. 1. AFTER the death of Isaac, his sons divided their habitations respectively; nor did they retain what they had before; but Esau departed from the city of Hebron, and left it to his brother, and dwelt...
Untitled : Josephus was born Joseph ben Mattathias in 37 C.E. in Jerusalem of a priestly and royal family. He excelled in his studies of Jewish law and studied with the Sadducees, Pharisees, and the Essenes, eventually aligning himself with the Pharisees. In 62 C.E. he went to Rome to free some imprisoned...
Book Vii. Part 1 : FROM THE DEATH OF SAUL TO THE DEATH OF DAVID. CHAPTER 1. 1. THIS fight proved to be on the same day whereon David was come back to Ziklag, after he had overcome the Amalekites. Now when he had been already two days at Ziklag, there came to him the man who slew Saul, which was the third day after...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Iv : Antiquities of the Jews - Book IV FROM THE REJECTION OF THAT GENERATION TO THE DEATH OF MOSES. CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW this life of the Hebrews in the wilderness was so disagreeable and troublesome to them, and they were so uneasy at it, that although God had forbidden them to meddle with the Canaanites...
Book I : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem CHAPTER 1. 1. AT the same time that Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, had a quarrel with the sixth Ptolemy about his right to the whole country of Syria, a great sedition fell among the men of power in Judea, and they had...
Book Ii. Part 1 : 1. IN the former book, most honored Epaphroditus, I have demonstrated our antiquity, and confirmed the truth of what I have said, from the writings of the Phoenicians, and Chaldeans, and Egyptians. I have, moreover, produced many of the Grecian writers as witnesses thereto. I have also made...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book I : Antiquities of the Jews - Book I FROM THE CREATION TO THE DEATH OF ISAAC. CHAPTER 1. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. But when the earth did not come into sight, but was covered with thick darkness, and a wind moved upon its surface, God commanded that there should be light...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xvi : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XVI FROM THE FINISHING OF THE TEMPLE BY HEROD TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER AND ARISTOBULUS. CHAPTER 1. 1. AS king Herod was very zealous in the administration of his entire government, and desirous to put a stop to particular acts of injustice which were done by...
Book Xviii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XVIII 1. NOW Cyrenius, a Roman senator, and one who had gone through other magistracies, and had passed through them till he had been consul, and one who, on other accounts, was of great dignity, came at this time into Syria, with a few others, being sent by Caesar...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XII FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO THE DEATH OF JUDAS MACCABEUS. CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW when Alexander, king of Macedon, had put an end to the dominion of the Persians, and had settled the affairs in Judea after the forementioned manner, he ended his life...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xi : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XI FROM THE FIRST OF CYRUS TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. CHAPTER 1. 1. IN the first year of the reign of Cyrus (1) which was the seventieth from the day that our people were removed out of their own land into Babylon, God commiserated the captivity and calamity...
Book Iv : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW all those Galileans who, after the taking of Jotapata, had revolted from the Romans, did, upon the conquest of Taricheae, deliver themselves up to them again. And the Romans received all the fortresses...
The Wars Of The Jews : THE WARS OF THE JEWS THE HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. PREFACE 1. (1) WHEREAS the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both of those wherein cities have...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Iii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book III FROM THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT, TO THE REJECTION OF THAT GENERATION. CHAPTER 1. 1. WHEN the Hebrews had obtained such a wonderful deliverance, the country was a great trouble to them, for it was entirely a desert, and without sustenance for them; and also had...
Book Ii : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW the necessity which Archelaus was under of taking a journey to Rome was the occasion of new disturbances; for when he had mourned for his father seven days, (1) and had given a very expensive funeral feast...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xx : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XX FROM FADUS THE PROCURATOR TO FLORUS. CHAPTER 1. 1. UPON the death of king Agrippa, which we have related in the foregoing book, Claudius Caesar sent Cassius Longinus as successor to Marcus, out of regard to the memory of king Agrippa, who had often desired of him...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xvii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XVII FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER AND ARISTOBULUS TO THE BANISHMENT OF ARCHELAUS. 1. WHEN Antipater had thus taken off his brethren, and had brought his father into the highest degree of impiety, till he was haunted with furies for what he had done, his hopes did not...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xix : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIX FROM THE DEPARTURE OUT OF BABYLON TO FADUS, THE ROMAN PROCURATOR. CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW this Caius (2) did not demonstrate his madness in offering injuries only to the Jews at Jerusalem, or to those that dwelt in the neighborhood; but suffered it to extend itself...
Chapter 1 : FROM THE DEATH OF ELI TO THE DEATH OF SAUL. CHAPTER 1. 1. WHEN the Philistines had taken the ark of the Hebrews captive, as I said a little before, they carried it to the city of Ashdod, and put it by their own god, who was called Dagon, (1) as one of their spoils; but when they went into his...
Book Vii : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem BOOK VII CHAPTER 1. 1. NOW as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury, (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xiv : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV FROM THE DEATH OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA TO THE DEATH OF ANTIGONUS. CHAPTER 1. 1. WE have related the affairs of queen Alexandra, and her death, in the foregoing book and will now speak of what followed, and was connected with those histories; declaring, before we...
Book Iii : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem CHAPTER 1. 1. WHEN Nero was informed of the Romans' ill success in Judea, a concealed consternation and terror, as is usual in such cases, fell upon him; although he openly looked very big, and was very angry, and said that wh...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xv : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XV FROM THE DEATH OF ANTIGONUS TO THE FINISHING OF THE TEMPLE BY HEROD. 1. HOW Sosius and Herod took Jerusalem by force; and besides that, how they took Antigonus captive, has been related by us in the foregoing book. We will now proceed in the narration. And since...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book Xiii : Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIII FROM THE DEATH OF JUDAS MACCABEUS TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA. CHAPTER 1. 1. BY what means the nation of the Jews recovered their freedom when they had been brought into slavery by the Macedonians, and what struggles, and how great battles, Judas, the general...
Antiquities Of Thejews.Book V : Antiquities of the Jews - Book V FROM THE DEATH OF MOSES TO THE DEATH OF ELI. CHAPTER 1. 1. WHEN Moses was taken away from among men, in the manner already described, and when all the solemnities belonging to the mourning for him were finished, and the sorrow for him was over, Joshua commanded...
Book V : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem CHAPTER 1. 1. WHEN therefore Titus had marched over that desert which lies between Egypt and Syria, in the manner forementioned, he came to Cesarea, having resolved to set his forces in order at that place, before he began the war...
Book Vi : THE WARS OF THE JEWS OR The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem 1. THUS did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day, and the seditious were still more irritated by the calamities they were under, even while the famine preyed upon themselves, after it had preyed upon the people...
An Extract Outof Josephus's Discourse : An Extract Out Of Josephus's Discourse To The Greeks Concerning Hades 1. NOW as to Hades, wherein the souls of the of the good things they see, and rejoice in the righteous and unrighteous are detained, it is necessary to speak of it. Hades is a place in the world not regularly finished;...
