Josephus Flavius lived through one of the most tumultuous eras in Jewish history. His life would take him from the command of Jewish forces in Galilee to the inner circles of Roman power, and ...

Okay, neither Josephus nor the author of his biography, A Jew Among Romans, was/is a painter, poet, or critic like the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century. So I’ve cheated a little in giving this ...

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 ...

Recently we began looking at claims that the Jewish historian Josephus (A.D. 37-c. 100) said that his people believed in reincarnation. This is not true. As we’ve already seen, there were two general ...

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

Tour guides leading thousands of visitors to Masada each year follow a similar routine: Where Roman troops breached the walls, they retell Josephus Flavius’s account of how a group of obsessive, ...

THE WORLD OF JOSEPHUS by G. A. Williamson. 318 pp. Little, Brown. $6. Two of the most momentous centuries in the history of the Jewish people would be almost a total blank were it not for the writings ...

Ancient narrative histories are drawing fresh attention as textual analysis provides robust evidence that Jesus Christ was a historical figure. While mainstream secular historians already widely ...