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What (who) is Joseph Flavius - definition
![[[Galilee]], site of Josephus's governorship, before the First Jewish–Roman War](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ancient Galilee.jpg?width=200 "[[Galilee]], site of Josephus's governorship, before the First Jewish–Roman War")
![The works of Josephus translated by [[Thomas Lodge]] (1602)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josephus flavius, english 1602.jpg?width=200 "The works of Josephus translated by [[Thomas Lodge]] (1602)")
![1581 German translation of Josephus' [[The Jewish War]] in the collection of the [[Jewish Museum of Switzerland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Von alten jüdischen Geschichten. Vom jüdischen Krieg.jpg?width=200 "1581 German translation of Josephus' [[The Jewish War]] in the collection of the [[Jewish Museum of Switzerland]]")
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Flavius Josephus (; Greek: Ἰώσηπος, Iṓsēpos; c. AD 37 – c. 100) was a 1st-century Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
He initially fought against the Roman Empire during the First Jewish–Roman War as general of the Jewish forces in Galilee, until surrendering in AD 67 to the Roman army led by military commander Vespasian after the six-week siege of Yodfat. Josephus claimed the Jewish messianic prophecies that initiated the First Jewish–Roman War made reference to Vespasian becoming Emperor of Rome. In response, Vespasian decided to keep Josephus as a slave and presumably interpreter. After Vespasian became Roman Emperor in AD 69, he granted Josephus his freedom, at which time Josephus assumed the Emperor's family name of Flavius.
Flavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship. He became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus, serving as his translator when Titus led the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70. Since the siege proved ineffective at stopping the Jewish revolt, the city's pillaging and the looting and destruction of Herod's Temple (Second Temple) soon followed.
Josephus recorded the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66–70), including the siege of Masada. His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94). The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation. Antiquities of the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish perspective for an ostensibly Greek and Roman audience. These works provide valuable insight into first century Judaism and the background of Early Christianity. Josephus's works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Israel, and provide a significant and independent extra-Biblical account of such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, John the Baptist, James the Just, and possibly Jesus of Nazareth.
