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Click download or read online button to get josephus the complete works book now. This site is dedicated to the works of the jewish historian flavius josephus 37 ce circa 100 ce for centuries josephus works were more widely read in europe than any book other than the bible. Copy freely war of the jews antiquities of the jews autobiography concerning hades against apion josephus was born joseph ben mattathias in 37 c. In the present volume, the emperor and his jew, the earlier young and ambitious. The american version is called josephus and the emperor, emphasizing the contest. Lion feuchtwanger, josephus and the emperor 1942, about the first century. They had no state, holding them together, no country, no soil, no king, no form of life in common. Josephus trilogy by lion feuchtwanger librarything.
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