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Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 3: Judean Antiquities Books 1–4 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Flavius Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, is unquestionably among the most important writers from classical antiquity. The significance of the works of Josephus as sources for our understanding of biblical history and of the political history of Palestine under Roman rule can scarcely be overestimated. This is the first volume published in this commentary series, which is the first...

16. And yet, at any rate, throughout the long duration of time and antiquity he [Moyses] would have had a very free hand for fabricated falsehoods. For he was born two thousand years19 ago, a span of time such that not even their poets20 ventured to refer to it the births of the gods, let alone the deeds or the laws of men. 17. This narrative will, therefore, in due course, set forth the precise details of what is in the Scriptures according to its proper order.21 For I promised that I would do
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