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Antiquities of the Jews

Flavius JosephusOriginal title Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία

Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Jewish 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 historical books of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve.

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“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.”

Flavius Josephus book Antiquities of the Jews

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

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