Today I would like to call your attention to what Yosef ben Matiyahu, the Jewish or Israelite priest and military leader who was granted Roman citizenship and adopted the name Titus Flavius Josephus in 69 A.D., and who then went on to become one of the most important writers and historians of antiquity, actually said…
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Making sense of Josephus’ «Manethonian» King List and Identifying the Allegedly Ficticious Egyptian King «Amenophis»
The second account of a Semitic invasion and sacking of Egypt and the question of its historicity: {Josephus continues:} 15. But now I shall produce the Egyptians as witnesses to the antiquity of our nation. I shall therefore here bring in Manetho again, and what he writes as to the order of the times in…
The enigmatic Huqoq Mosaic – whom does it really depict?
Discovered in the ruins of an ancient synagogue in Galilee in 2012/2013, this stunning scene, part of a series of unusually well-preserved mosaics adorning the floors of a synagogue dated to the 400s A.D., has been surmised to depict a meeting between Alexander the Great and the High Priest of Jerusalem, many centuries before, but…
