Disease and the Christian Discourse of Jewish Death in "De Excidio Hierosolymitano" 5, 2 by Carson Bay

“…As a Christian version of this history based largely upon Flavius Josephus’ earlier Jewish War, De Excidio understands himself to be telling the story of the effective death of the Jews in history. …”
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Head as metaphor in Paul by A. Wolters

“…The passage in Herodotus probably reflects a semantic loan from Old Persian *sar while various places in the Septuagint, Philo, Josephus and Paul reflect a semantic loan from Hebrew “ro’sh” (or Aramaic “re’sh”). …”
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Review of: Wittkowsky Vadim. The LukeActs Dilogy: Composition and Synoptic Sources. Moscow: Biblical Theological Institute, 2022. 728 p. by Alexander A. Tkachenko

“…The same applies to the question of the dependence of the Acts of the Apostles on the works of Flavius Josephus, which is accepted by the author of the monograph as a proven fact. …”
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Linguistic Communication Channels Reveal Connections between Texts: The New Testament and Greek Literature by Emilio Matricciani

“…To set the New Testament texts in the larger Greek classical literature, we considered texts written by Aesop, Polybius, Flavius Josephus, and Plutarch. The results largely confirmed what scholars have found about the New Testament texts, therefore giving credibility to the theory. …”
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Editorial Possibilities of Presenting Literary Texts of Ladislav Bartolomeides (1754 – 1825) by Erika Brtáňová

“…In the first part the subject of the analysis is Bartolomeides´s reeditions of two Czech translations: a popular didactic satire Spis užitečný a velmi potřebný od Doktora Grobiana z upřímnosti učinený (A Useful and Really Necessary Treatise by Doctor Grobian Written in a Honest Manner, 1784) translated from German into Czech around the end of the 16th century and a work written by the ancient historian Josephus Flavius O válce židovské knihy sedmery (Seven Books on the Jewish War, 1805), which was translated from Latin by Pavel Aquilinus Hradecký (1533). …”
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Recontructing the Formation of Israel's Religion in the context of Old Testament Biblical Text by Tirta Susila, Latupeirissa Risvan

“…The emergence of varieties of monotheism that occurred in Israel around the 2nd century BC as recorded by Josephus was the culmination of an inclusive form of monotheism which gradually developed into exclusive monotheism during the Hellenistic period. …”
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Transposed appetites: Mary of Jerusalem’s cannibalism in post-Reformation narratives by Groves, B, Neelakanta, V

“…This essay examines the intersection of ritual sacrifice, blood libel, and child murder in the story of Mary of Jerusalem, whom Josephus describes as having killed and eaten her own son during the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem. …”

The Pseudepigraphical “Life of Moses” in the “Tichonravov’s Chronograph” and in the Biblical Compendium from the Collection of thе Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius by Tatiana V. Anisimova

“…Both new copies of the apocryphon were included in an extensive fragment of a previously unknown Old Russian chronograph based, firstly, on the Biblical books of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and the Book of Job, as well as on an unknown Slavic translation of Judean Antiquities by Josephus, and on the following Apocrypha (in addition to the Life of Moses): Lesser Genesis (The Book of Jubilees), Death of Abraham and Genesis of Esau. …”
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The Translator’s Paradox by Anne-Marie Le Baillif

“…The name of the Greek or Latin writer was eclipsed by the translator’s name such as Plantin and the Biblia Polyglotta, or Belleforest with his translation of The War of the Jews written by Flavius Josephus. The translation of the title gave the work a new specificity and was considered as the genuine work of the translator even though the name of the original author was still given. …”
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Ślady żeglugi po morzu martwym w tekstach antycznych (IVBC-IIAC). by Piotr Briks

“…The paper analyses nine ancient texts, which mentioned – in a more or less direct way – the navigation in the Dead Sea in the period in question: – three reports by Hieronymus of Cardia (4th–3rd centuries BC) kept in the version written by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC), – a note by Strabo (about 63 BC – AD 24) in his ‘Geography’, where he quotes a description of extracting asphalt coming from Posidonius of Rhodes (about 135–50 BC), – two texts by Titus Flavius Josephus (AD 37–94), – the description by Tacitus (about AD 55–120); – the text written by Marcus Junianius Justinus (AD 2nd–3rd centuries) based on Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (the end of the 1st century BC), – a fragment of the letter written by Simon bar Kokhba (2nd century AC), in which he writes about the goods kept on ships in the port of Ein Gedi. …”
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Theology and identity of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora in Septuagint of Isaiah by Kim, K

“…LXX-Is supplies a bold translation in 19:18: a temple in Egypt, called the ‘city of righteousness’. The writings of Josephus testify to the existence of the Temple of Onias in Heliopolis under the reign of Ptolemy Philometor who apparently showed great favour towards the Jews. …”

'Grace no longer grace': Participant relationality in early imperial discussions of χάρις and its implications for Pauline theology by Ferguson, J

“…Chapter 2 traces the reception and development of this idea in descriptions by Philo and Josephus of various exemplary and impious human responses to the χάρις of God.…”

The reception history of Esther a genderqueer/non-binary reading of the ancient texts and in modern scholarship by Thompson, H

“…The versions studied are the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, the Greek Alpha Text, Josephus’s Paraphrase of Esther in the ‘Judean Antiquities’ and Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. …”

Vakmanschap en comfort by Marjoleine van Schaik, Maartje Taverne

“…The ceiling, which has been dated to between 1635 and 1639, was commissioned by Josephus   Coymans and his wife Dorothea Berck. Ten years earlier, the Coymans family had been among the earliest patrons of Dutch classicism in Amsterdam when they commissioned Jacob van Campen to design the front facade of the Coymanshuis (1625). …”
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Paleocene – Late Oligocene dinoflagellate cysts biostratigraphy, onshore Niger Delta by Festus Ojenabor, Suyi Lawrence Fadiya, Ekundayo Joseph Adepehin

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Welcome to the -omics era of the 21st century: will Proteus anguinus finally reveal all its mysteries? by Janez Mulec

“…The scientific name Proteus anguinus was given by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768. The animal gained the interest of the scientific community later in the 19th century, culminating in 1859 in Charles Darwin's famous monograph On the Origin of Species as an example of evolutionary reduction of body structures through disuse. …”
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New Light on the Nebiim from Alexandria: A Chronography to Replace the Deuteronomistic History by Ph. Guillaume

“…The Alexandrian Canon hypothesis thus needs to be revived, albeit in a modified form, despite the conclusions reached 40 years ago by Albert Sundberg. Even Josephus, who had a low opinion of the LXX, based his list of thirteen prophetic books on the Alexandrian Chronography, transmitted by the LXX’s Historica (Joshua—Esther). …”
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Roman Law and Local Law in Asia Minor (133 BC - AD 212) by Kantor, G

“…The validity of Flavius Josephus' evidence is upheld and the role of 'ancestral laws' ideology in Roman interventions in support of Jewish courts discussed. …”

The auxilia and numeri raised in the Roman province of Syria by Kennedy, D, David Leslie Kennedy

“…'; 'Mesopotam,ian Soldiers in the Roman Army'; the date Of the career of Valerius Lollianus; and, a study of Josephus <em>BJ</em>,III,66.</p> <p>Illustrations consist of maps and photographs.…”

Roman public libraries by Nicholls, M, Nicholls, Matthew Charles

“…IV. 1 discusses the evidence for use of libraries by scholars and authors such as Gellius, Galen, Josephus, and Apuleius. Ch. IV.2 examines parallels between library collections and compendious encyclopaedic elements within Roman literature and considers how library collections came to be canon-forming institutions and vehicles for the expression of imperial approval or disapproval towards authors. …”