Recently we began looking at claims that the Jewish historian Josephus (A.D. 37-c. 100) said that his people believed in reincarnation. This is not true. As we’ve already seen, there were two general ...

Okay, neither Josephus nor the author of his biography, A Jew Among Romans, was/is a painter, poet, or critic like the Pre-Raphaelites of the 19th century. So I’ve cheated a little in giving this ...

Tour guides leading thousands of visitors to Masada each year follow a similar routine: Where Roman troops breached the walls, they retell Josephus Flavius’s account of how a group of obsessive, ...

The author of The Jewish War—our sole account of the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Romans—has always been one of the Ancient World’s most controversial figures. Born Joseph ben ...

In Josephus’s account, Judah repeatedly stresses that Israel does not seek dominion over others, only the right to live according to its ancestral traditions in its own land.

Did hundreds of Jews really commit suicide at Masada? Historian Shaye Cohen compares Josephus' account with recent archaeological evidence. From "Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, ...