Josephus
historical figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Jewish historian whose history is cited as the source for the account of Ananias and Tzates.
” Therefore Ananias, the Jew, as we find in the history of Josephus, very properly taught Tzates, or as Tacitus calls him, Ezates, the Adiabenian, that even without circumcision, God might be rightly worshipped and rendered propitious.
The truth of this may be proved, not only from our own writings, but from Josephus also, and the Jewish Rabbies.
Josephus observes, that the love of life is a law of nature strongly implanted in all creatures, and therefore we look upon those as enemies, who would openly deprive us of it.
Apologeticum
Jewish historian cited as native authority on Jewish antiquities.
Josephus the Jew, native champion of Jewish antiquities;