![]() ![]() This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish War ( De Bello Iudaico), provides valuable background material for historians wishing to understand 1st-century CE Judaism and the early Christian period. The second ten volumes continues the history of the Jewish people beyond the biblical text and up to the Jewish War, or the First Jewish–Roman War (66 to 73 CE). In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve. Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of the history of the Jewish people for Josephus' gentile patrons. A leaf from the 1466 manuscript of the Antiquitates Iudaice, National Library of PolandĪntiquities of the Jews ( Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around CE 93 or 94. ![]()
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