[As historians of the ancient world,] Josephus is our primary source for reconstructing history in the late second temple period and in the time of Jesus and the first century. Josephus is our ...

Flavius Josephus, who lived until 98 A.D., was a romanized Jewish historian. He wrote books on Jewish history for the Roman people. In his book, Jewish Antiquities, he made references to Jesus.

He contends that Jesus being crucified “in the middle ... national revolutionaries by the 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus. Luke calls them simply “evildoers” or “wrongdoers ...

This event suggests that Jesus was born at least two years before Herod's death. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus provides details about Herod's death, which occurred shortly after a lunar ...

[As historians of the ancient world,] Josephus is our primary source for reconstructing history in the late second temple period and in the time of Jesus and the first century. Josephus is our ...