How To Use Josephus In A Sentence
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Abel-shittim, where the Israelites pitched their tents immediately after they had passed the river Jordan, in Josephus is called Abila, "distant from
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Here again it is a famous question whether what Flavius Josephus and Eusebius quote under the name of Hecataeus is authentic.
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It contains the entire Latin bible, Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, Cosmas of Prague's Chronicle of Bohemia, and several tractates, calendars, necrologies, and so on and so forth.
Done panicking.
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But, as has been pointed out, the details recorded are “the commonplaces of poliorcetics,” and may have been borrowed by Josephus from some military text-book and neatly applied.
Josephus
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As Lysanias I was king over the whole region, one small portion of it could not be called his tetrarchy or kingdom, as is done by Josephus (Bel.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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That these arches are triumphal is made clear by the frieze on the nearer of the two, which refers to Vespasian, whose joint triumph with Titus was well known from Josephus's account, discussed above.
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_ "" For the dressing of ij books whereof oon is called la forteresse de Foy and the other called the booke of Josephus, iij_s. _ iiij_d.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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For however St. Luke, speaking of Herod, mentions Galilee only within his tetrarchy, Luke 3: 1, yet Josephus tells us, that "both Perea and Galilee were under his jurisdiction.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Why does Josephus not lambast these 'blasphemers' when he says that Jesus was a wise man?
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels
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This is testified not only in the Synoptics, but also in John, the new testament letters, Josephus, and Tacitus.
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"They eschew pleasure-seeking as a vice and regard temperance and mastery of the passions as a virtue," Josephus writes of the Essenes.
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(So 2: 4) first into the King's chambers, thence is drawn after Him in answer to her prayer; is next received on a grassy couch under a cedar kiosk; and at last in a "banqueting hall," such as, Josephus says,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Josephus telleth us that Perceval was in this castle long time, nor never once moved therefrom in quest of no adventure; rather was his courage so attorned to the Saviour of the World and His sweet
The High History of the Holy Graal
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Josephus, Valerius Maximus, psychological and medical authorities have been searched and appealed to for examples of such apparent resurrections from a trance or asphyxy, especially on the third day, which is supposed to be a turning-point for life or putrefaction.
The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
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Last year was The New Complete Works of Josephus, which I'm glad I read, though I don't think anyone else joined us for that one, since reading all of that in forty days is simply impossible for anyone with, you know, a life.
Archive 2009-01-01
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But as to the derivation of the word manna, whether from man, which Josephus says then signified What is it or from mannah, to divide, i.e., a dividend or portion allotted to every one, it is uncertain: I incline to the latter derivation.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Why Josephus should not mention Perea, when he is speaking of the father's kingdom, or why St. Luke should omit it, when he instances the tetrarchy of the son, that being so unquestionably within his jurisdiction, I confess is something strange to me; nor could I pass it without some remark.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Sources for his life the four Gospels the Acts of the Apostles, and the historian Josephus.
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At Cluny ... the famous monastery that sparked the Cluniac Reform in the tenth century, Josephus was specified for Lenten reading. [p. 15]
2008 Lenten Read-a-Thon Day 1: Ash Wednesday
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Also, in regard to the issue of gnostics and inscriptions on steles attributed to Seth, Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews mentions a pillar made by Seth.
4QInstruction and Sethian Gnosticism
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[6] This expression of Josephus, that the Medes, upon this destruction of the Assyrian army, "overthrew" the Assyrian empire, seems to be too strong; for although they immediately cast off the Assrian yoke, and set up Deioces, a king of their own, yet it was some time before the Medes and Babylonians overthrew Nineveh, and some generations ere the
Antiquities of the Jews
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The Library Company had a beautiful 1795 edition, showing that Allen and Jones had indeed subscribed for a copy of Josephus and were probably familiar with it before securing the book!
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[29] What we render a witch, according to our modern notions of witchcraft, Exodus 22: 15, Philo and Josephus understood of a poisoner, or one who attempted by secret and unlawful drugs or philtra, to take away the senses or the lives of men.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Josephus, following probably a Roman authority, gives an account of the fortifications of Jerusalem from the point of view of the besieger, which is confirmed in large part by modern research. [
Josephus
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But, as has been pointed out, the details recorded are "the commonplaces of poliorcetics," and may have been borrowed by Josephus from some military text-book and neatly applied.
Josephus
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Mr. Finlay suggests that in part it arose out of the fragments from Alexander's kingdoms, recombining: partly out of the Isaurian land pirates already established, and furnished with such astonishing natural fortresses as existed nowhere else if we except those aërial caves -- a sort of mountain nests on the side of declivities, which Josephus describes as harbouring
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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[8] Which were these twenty-two sacred books of the Old Testament, see the Supplement to the Essay of the Old Testament, p. 25-29, viz. those we call canonical, all excepting the Canticles; but still with this further exception, that the book of apocryphal Esdras be taken into that number instead of our canonical Ezra, which seems to be no more than a later epitome of the other; which two books of Canticles and Ezra it no way appears that our Josephus ever saw.
Against Apion
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The same Josephus tells us this of the tetrarchy of Philip: "Batanea, also, and Trachonitis, Auranitis, and some parts of Zeno's house, about Jamnia, yielding the profits of one hundred talents, were under Philip's government.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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In addition to making leaps from "not historical research as we know it" to what he calls "midrash" in the next paragraph, and from there to "myth," a key problem is that apparently he hasn't read in detail sources like the first-century Jewish historian Josephus.
Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence?
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Josephus was a Jewish historian who lived circa 37-100 AD.
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The evidence from the historian Josephus is problematical.
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But you might lie round among grandmother's feet for days, and, except for a stray cuff in passing if she actually walked into you -- a cuff given in the purest spirit of love and good-will, and merely as a warning of the worse thing that might happen to you if you made her spill the dinner "sowens" -- you might spend your days in reading anything from the _Arabian Nights_ in Uncle Eben's old tattered edition to the mighty _Josephus_, all complete with plans and plates -- over which on
The Dew of Their Youth
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Neither, indeed, doth St. Luke say any thing of Perea, even then when he mentions the tetrarchy of Herod Antipas, under whose jurisdiction, Josephus tells us, were both Perea and Galilee.
From the Talmud and Hebraica