Flavius Josephus

When did Flavius Josephus live?

Flavius Josephus is dated c. AD 37 – c. 100 in the archive, which places Flavius Josephus in the Apostolic Fathers (AD 70–130). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Flavius Josephus write?

Flavius Josephus has 2 catalogued writings in the archive: Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish War.

Which early sources mention Flavius Josephus?

Flavius Josephus is named in 3 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome of Stridon. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Flavius Josephus from?

The archive associates Flavius Josephus with Jerusalem, Rome. The sources record more than one location, so the places are listed in the order the record moves through them.

…he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James.

The Romans… burnt all those houses whither the Jews were fled, and every soul in them.

Josephus, though not believing in Jesus as the Christ, in seeking after the cause of the fall of Jerusalem… says that these disasters happened to the Jews as a punishment for the death of James the Just, who was a brother of Jesus who was called Christ.

Josephus, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and the most famous historian among his countrymen.

In the eighteenth book of his Antiquities he most openly acknowledges that Christ was slain by the Pharisees on account of the greatness of his miracles.