Flavius Josephus

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS: By : Richard Gottheil Samuel Krauss

ARTICLE HEADINGS:

• Appointed Governor of Galilee.
• Antagonism of John of Giscala.
• Wins Favor of Vespasian.
• The Works of Josephus.
• Importance for Biblical Exegesis.
• Non-Biblical Authors Cited.
• His Biblical Interpretation.
• Editions and Translations of Josephus' Works:
• Syriac and Hebrew.
• In Modern Languages.
• Greek.

General and historian; born in 37 or 38; died after 100. He boasts of belonging to the Hasmonean race on his mother's side ("Vita," § 1). His great-grandfather was Simon "the Stammerer." As a boy Josephus was distinguished for his good memory and his ease in learning. He passed through the schools of the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes in turn, and then spent three years in the desert with a certain Banus. When nineteen years old he attached himself finally to the party of the Pharisees (ib. § 2). In his twenty-sixth year he had occasion to journey to Rome in the interests of certain priests who had been sent thither in chains by the procurator Felix. Here he obtained the favor of the empress Poppæa.

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