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Joseph fils de Matthatias le Prêtre , plus connu sous son nom latin de Flavius Josèphe , né à Jérusalem en 37/38 et mort à Rome vers 100, est un historiographe romain juif d'origine judéenne du Ier siècle.

Son œuvre — écrite en grec — est l'une des sources principales sur l'histoire des Judéens du Ier siècle. Elle concerne, les Antiquités judaïques en particulier, les événements et conflits de son temps entre Rome et Jérusalem, même si elle n'est pas sans poser de problèmes aux historiens actuels. Wikipedia  

✵ 37 ap. J.-C. – 100
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Flavius Josèphe: Citations en anglais

“Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.”

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Flavius Josephus

Book 3.5.1, trans. William Whiston
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“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.”

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Flavius Josephus

Chap. 5, opening, trans. G. A. Williamson
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.”

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Flavius Josephus

Book 3.8.3, trans. William Whiston
regarding his defection to the Roman Empire
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“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.”

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Flavius Josephus

Closing words, trans. G. A. Williamson
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.”

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Flavius Josephus livre Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE), Book 11.8.5, trans. William Whiston

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