Josephus


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Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)

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Marylin and Mike Hamilton pictured at Aberdeen Maritime Museum in 2018, with the Arctic Medal presented posthumously to Josephus Gaeter of Aberdeen, who died on Franklin's fatal expedition.
Matthew narrates that Herod puts John in prison (in the fortress of Machaerus, according to Josephus) for confronting him with his adulterous union with Herodias.
Flavio Josefo nos lembra que Herodes construiu ginasios em Tripoli, Damasco e Ptolemais; em Cos financiou a manutencao da sede anual do ginasiarca (2); em Sidon e Damasco ele construiu teatros; e em Olimpia o rei ofereceu um grande presente para reviver os jogos que decairam devido a falta de dinheiro (Josephus 1997: 1.422-428).
This newest and unique edition of "Josephus Carta's Illustrated The Jewish War" by R.
A captivating tale in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews (Ant.
These primary sources include the writings of Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Josephus Flavius, Suetonius, and Bernard of Cluny.
Josephus, the Jewish historian (37-100 CE), had access to the text and quoted extensively from it, but it is no longer available in its original form.
Flavius Josephus was a firstcentury Roman-Jewish historian.
He sifts through the writings of Josephus, the classic four sources of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark, the hypothetical sayings source Q, special Matthean material, and special Lukan material), the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of John, and published archaeological reports.
Craig's biography of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
Josephus Daniels rose from near poverty to own and edit newspapers, most notably the Raleigh News and Observer, and through these papers and an understanding of the people of North Carolina dominated the state's politics for four decades as a populist reformer and shaper of the white supremacist movement.
FORCED to flee his country as the Kaiser's armies advanced in 1914, Belgian carpenter Josephus Van Camp and his wife Bertha found refuge overseas in England.
Judas of Nazareth: How the Greatest Teacher of First-Century Israel Was Replaced by a Literary Creation is for any collection strong in either new age for alternative Christianity, and here provides a survey that uses the histories of Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny and the Dead Sea Scrolls to argue that the "Jesus" of the Bible was actually a composite of peoples.
He inquires how useful is automatic writing as a hermeneutic tool, tries out automatic writing in modern day Kardecism, seeks evidence of automatic writing in antiquity, scouts the work of the philosophers Josephus and Ezra for testimonies, and examines religious pseudepigraphy for clues.