Flavius Josephus — Jewish Antiquities

Evidence state: documented fact

Late first-century Jewish historiographical work in Greek. It is a major comparative source for Second-Temple institutions, rulers, priesthood, politics, geography, and Jewish history, but individual historical claims still require source criticism.

Release Introduced

v50

Curation State

CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY

Short Title

Josephus, Antiquities

Evidence Classification

documented fact

Date Range

{
    "start_ce": 93,
    "end_ce": 94,
    "label": "ca. 93–94 CE",
    "certainty": "standard composition range retained for catalog context"
}

Languages

[
    "Greek"
]

Tradition Contexts

[
    "JEWISH_CONTEXT",
    "GRECO_ROMAN_CONTEXT"
]

Identifiers

[
    {
        "scheme": "CTS work URN",
        "value": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0526.tlg001"
    }
]

Source Ids

[
    "SRC_PERSEUS_JOSEPHUS_ANTIQUITIES"
]

Rights

{
    "edition_text_state": "CC_BY_SA_SOURCE_EDITION",
    "translation_state": "SOURCE_VERSION_TERMS_APPLY",
    "local_host_state": "LOCAL_HOST_PERMITTED_WITH_LICENSE_COMPLIANCE"
}

Evidence Boundary

Josephus is an ancient literary/historical source, not a neutral transcript of events. Agreement or disagreement with Scripture must be evaluated claim by claim; later digital editions are not the ancient autograph.