Josephus
From the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the sedition at Cyrene. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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Book 1 [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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Preface to Antiquities of the Jews. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the Creation to the death of Isaac. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Isaac to the exodus out of Egypt. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the exodus out of Egypt, to the rejection of that generation. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the rejection of that generation to the death of Moses. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Moses to the death of Eli. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Eli to the death of Saul. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Saul to the death of David. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of David to the death of Ahab. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Ahab to the captivity of the ten tribes. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the departure out of Babylon to Fadus, the roman procurator. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the captivity of the ten tribes to the first year of Cyrus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the first of Cyrus to the death of Alexander the great. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Judas Maccabeus to the death of queen Alexandra. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of queen Alexandra to the death of Antigonus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Antigonus to the finishing of the temple by Herod. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the finishing of the temple by Herod to the death of Alexander and Aristobulus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Alexander and Aristobulus to the banishment of Archelaus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the banishment of Archelus to the departure from Babylon. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From Fadus the procurator to Florus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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Preface to War of the Jews. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the death of Herod the great. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the death of Herod till Vespasian was sent to subdue the Jews by Nero. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From Vespasian's coming to subdue the Jews to the taking of Gamala. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the siege of Gamala to the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem, to the great extremity to which the Jews were reduced. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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From the great extremity to which the Jews were reduced to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus. [The Writings of Flavius Josephus]
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This graph of Josephus' lineage [right column] is a historical reconstruction based on information in the opening paragraph of his autobiography & other works. He claims to have recorded his genealogy "as I have found it described in the public records" [Life 1]. But when coordinated with historical information about the Hasmonean dynasty that he himself reports in his other works [left four columns] there are some obvious major generational discrepancies in his family tree. Josephus' count of his ancestors' generations would make him a fourth cousin of Herod's 2nd wife, Mariamne, who died sixty-eight years before he was born! Josephus' reports of his own experiences make it more probable that he was at most a sixth or, more likely, a seventh cousin of his near contemporary Herod Agrippa II, who was king of Iturea [southern Lebanon] in the decades surrounding the Jewish-Roman war of 66-70 CE.
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