id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-416 Josephus - Wikipedia .html text/html 6564 755 68 Josephus' works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Palestine,[10] and provide a significant and independent extra-Biblical account of such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, John the Baptist, and Jesus Christ. The works of Josephus provide crucial information about the First Jewish-Roman War and also represent important literary source material for understanding the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls and late Temple Judaism. The works of Josephus are major sources of our understanding of Jewish life and history during the first century.[67] In terms of some of his sources for the project, Josephus says that he drew from and "interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures"[70] and that he was an eyewitness to the wars between the Jews and the Romans,[69] which were earlier recounted in Jewish Wars. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-416.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-416.txt