Query: Josephus books
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Jewish War
The Life of Flavius Josephus
Against Apion
Antiquities of the Jews
Evidence from documents: The Jewish War: '''''The Jewish War''''' or '''''Judean War''''' (in full '''''Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans''''', , ''Phlauiou Iōsēpou historia Ioudaikou polemou pros Rōmaious biblia''), also referred to in English as '''''The Wars of the Jews''''', is a book written by Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian of the 1st century. It has been described by Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history".
The Life of Flavius Josephus: '''''The Life of (Flavius) Josephus''''' ( ''Iosepou bios''), also called the "Life of Flavius Josephus", or simply ''Vita'', is an autobiographical text written by Josephus in approximately 94-99 CE
Against Apion: '''''Against Apion''''' ( and ; Latin ''Contra Apionem'' or ''In Apionem'') 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.
Antiquities of the Jews: A leaf from the 1466 manuscript of the ''Antiquitates Iudaice'', National Library of Poland
'''''Antiquities of the Jews''''' (; , ''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 AD 93 or 94. ''Antiquities of the Jews'' contains an account of history of the Jewish people for Josephus' gentile patrons. In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve.