One of our most important sources for all the history of this period is the Jewish historian, Josephus. Josephus himself grew up in and around Jerusalem; he claims to have been a part of the Pharisaic ...

As a present-day witness to the events of the first century C.E., the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is a valuable resource for scholars. Yet those who read him must proceed with caution, ...

Opinion: Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is the only independent source to attest to the existence and fate of Jesus, John the Baptist and James. I am frequently asked about independent evidence of ...

One of the earliest known depictions of Jesus Christ. Dated to the 4th century, it was found in a cemetery in an imperial villa that belonged to Constantine. Christians now observing Holy Week - the ...

A millennium separates the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans from the rise of Hebrew literature, which emerged in the Jewish world in the 11th century. This period begins with the ...