Collected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of Flavius Josephus' "The Antiquities of the Jews". Antiquities of the Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins with the creation of Adam and Eve, and follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible, often adding information that we might not otherwise have today.
Among the many important historical documents from the Classical world of Greece and Rome "The Antiquities of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus is one of the most distinctive and characterful.
Flavius Josephus (37 â c. 100) was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, best known for The Jewish War, who was born in Jerusalemâthen part of Roman Judeaâto a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.Â