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 ...

Alternately hailed as the grand chronicler of the Jewish war with the Romans and reviled as a traitorous propagandist for the Roman emperor, the Jewish historian Josephus (37–c. 100 C.E.) captured ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. For ...

Professor Solomon Zeitlin of Dropsie College, Philadelphia, who came to Moscow to study an alleged eighth century manuscript of Josephus’s “Jewish Wars”, said to contain the famous passage on Jesus, ...

A life and times of the very interesting, and ever controversial Flavius Josephus. Raphael discusses Josephus within the framework of his times, and there’s much useful material here for the student ...