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Flavius Josephus's Against Apion is one of the most important ancient defences of Jewish history, antiquity, law, and religious identity. Written in answer to Greek and Egyptian critics who attacked the Jewish people and questioned the authority of their traditions,... Read Full Overview

Flavius Josephus's Against Apion is one of the most important ancient defences of Jewish history, antiquity, law, and religious identity. Written in answer to Greek and Egyptian critics who attacked the Jewish people and questioned the authority of their traditions,... Read Full Overview

Known as Titus Flavius Josephus as an Jewish Roman citizen during the 1st century. Surviving the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 he gives insight into the first century Judaism. Providing important information between the first war between the Jewish state and Rome, giving an... Read Full Overview

Joseph, fils de Mattathias le Pretre, vecut au Ier siecle de notre ere, entre la Judee en guerre contre les Romains et Rome dont il fut l'un des serviteurs. Passe dans l'histoire sous le nom de Flavius Josephe, il fut un acteur et un spectateur des evenements qui ont bouleverse... Read Full Overview

Against Apion is a polemical work written by Flavius Josephus as a defense of Judaism as a classical religion and philosophy against criticism by Apion, stressing its antiquity against what he perceived as more recent traditions of the Greeks. One of his main sources was Menander... Read Full Overview

"Against Apion" is an important literary work written by Flavius Josephus, a 1st century CE Jewish historian and scholar. The book is a detailed refutation to the Alexandrian grammarian and scholar Apion's writings, which levied many charges and falsehoods against the Jewish... Read Full Overview

"Against Apion" from Josephus. First-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer (37-100).

Known as Titus Flavius Josephus as an Jewish Roman citizen during the 1st century. Surviving the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 he gives insight into the first century Judaism. Providing important information between the first war between the Jewish state and Rome, giving an... Read Full Overview

Curieuse fortune que celle des oeuvres de Flavius Josephe: critique voire calomnie par ses pairs, l'historien est desormais la source principale de notre connaissance du royaume d'Israel durant les deux derniers siecles de son existence. S'ils furent peu lus par ses contemporains,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

Against Apion is a historical work by Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian and scholar. The book is a response to the anti-Semitic writings of Apion, a Greek writer who had attacked the Jewish people and their customs. Josephus sets out to defend the Jewish people and their... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

. I Suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, 2 have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how... Read Full Overview

Known as Titus Flavius Josephus as an Jewish Roman citizen during the 1st century. Surviving the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 he gives insight into the first century Judaism. Providing important information between the first war between the Jewish state and Rome, giving... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview