The Antiquities of the Jews
by Flavius Josephus
Translated by William Whiston
- Length
- 225 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
The Antiquities of the Jews is a history of the Jewish people from the Creation to the years just before the revolt against Rome in 66 AD, written in Greek by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. In his last chapter he says he finished it in the thirteenth year of the emperor Domitian, which was the fifty-sixth year of his own life. In his preface he explains that he wrote for Greek readers, drawing on the Hebrew Scriptures, after his earlier history of the Jewish war with Rome. This is William Whiston’s English translation, first published in 1737.
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