Twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the eve of the revolt of 66, written in Rome in the 90s by a Galilean commander who had surrendered to Vespasian and taken his family name. It is the main independent source for almost every public figure named in the gospels.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. Antiquities of the Jews shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon. AndBook 22 and Book 1
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: William Whiston, 1737. Source: Gutenberg 2848.
The text here is William Whiston’s translation, 1737, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 2848, set unaltered.
The gospel pages on this shelf cite him constantly — for Pilate, Antipas, Annas, Caiaphas, Quirinius and John the Baptist. Those claims can now be read against the text they rest on.
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