Great Throughts Treasury
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Josephus, fully Titus Flavius Josephus, aka Joseph ben Matthias or Matityahu NULL
Roman Jewish Priest, Historian, Army General, Hagiographer and Scholar who tried to explain Judaism to the Greeks and Romans
"All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies."
"Everyone should worship God in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience, and not under constraint."
"I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee."
"And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended."
"Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else."
"Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him."