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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, First Division, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

This classic text has been a trusted source of Jewish history for over 100 years. This volume begins nearly 2 centuries before the birth of Christ, and helps lay the framework for the world that Jesus would be born into.

which he had offered up in cities, and in the honours which he gave to the gods, he went beyond all other kings. As a proof of this we may point to the Temple of Zeus at Athens, and the images around the altar at Delos. He was wont also to bathe in the public baths, when they were quite full of their habitual visitors, where vessels of the most costly perfumes would be brought to him. When somebody once said to him: ‘Happy art thou, O king, since thou hast such perfumes and givest forth such fragrance;’
Volume 1, Pages 201–202